Conjunction, Contiguity, Contingency Hardcover

Leo Depuydt

This monograph comprises three intimately related studies on the grammar of hieroglyphic Egyptian and its linear descendant, Coptic, covering a period of 4000 years of language history. Depuydt approaches the subject from the standpoint of the `Standard Theory' developed by his mentor, the distinguished Egyptologist, Hans Jakob Polotsky. The first essay studies the verb form called `conjunctive', arguing that the function of the conjunctive is to `conjoin' a chain of two or more events into a single - though compound - notion. The second essay shows how a certain syntactic construction can be used to refer to events that are contiguous, that is, events th

0195080920

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Oxford University Press

15-Mar-09

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