Middle Egyptian

Peter Beylage

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781575069777, 9781575069777
• eBook ISBN: 9781646022021
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Ancient Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

This grammar provides a comprehensive overview of Middle Egyptian and illustrates its grammatical features with extensive examples from various sources. Exercises at the end of each chapter, along with a sign list and a hieroglyphic word list, provide the reader with the means to apply and practice the content, enabling this book to be used as both a grammar reference and a textbook.

The book's structure and detailed outline facilitate its use as a reference, making it easy to find information on any particular grammatical feature. At the same time, the extensive content of the forty chapters provides a suitable basis for self-guided study and enables the student to read and understand Egyptian inscriptions and literary texts in hieroglyphic transliteration. Recent developments in the understanding of Egyptian are exemplified in numerous quotations from Egyptian texts, and exercises at the end of each chapter provide further opportunity for considering the grammatical phenomena discussed in the chapter, allowing for both practice and review. For reasons of convenience, the vocabulary necessary for the exercises, along with the words used in the examples, are arranged into a word list at the end of the book. Similar and alternative grammatical constructions are compared, and in addition to the "classical" language of the Middle Kingdom, the book considers both Old Egyptian and Late Egyptian influences.

As a hybrid reference and textbook, this volume introduces the reader to the grammatical features of Middle Egyptian and illustrates the means of expression used in ancient Egyptian.

Table of contents

• COVER Front
• Copyright Page
• Table of CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1: THE WRITING SYSTEM AND ITS TRANSEITERATION
• Chapter 2: NOUNS
• Chapter 3: NOUN PHRASES
• Chapter 4: PRONOUNS
• Chapter 5: ADJECTIVES
• Chapter 6: PREPOSITIONS
• Chapter 7: THE ADJECTIVAL CONVERSION OF NOUNS AND PREPOSITIONS – THE NISBA
• Chapter 8: ADVERBS
• Chapter 9: NUMBERS
• Chapter 10: VERBS – DEFINITION AND VERB CLASSES
• Chapter 11: THE INFINITIVE AND OTHER VERBAL NOUNS, THE NEGATIVAL COMPLEMENT, AND THE COMPLEMENTARY INFINITIVE
• Chapter 12: PARTICLES AND INTERJECTIONS
• Chapter 13: OVERVIEW OF THE DIFFERENT SENTENCE PATTERNS
• Chapter 14: CLAUSES WITH NOMINAL PREDICATE
• Chapter 15: CLAUSES WITH ADJECTIVAL PREDICATE
• Chapter 16: CLAUSES WITH ADVERBIAL PREDICATE
• Chapter 17: DIFFERENT PATTERNS OF NON-EXISTENCE
• Chapter 18: POSSESSIVE CLAUSES
• Chapter 19: FURTHER REMARKS ON VERBS
• Chapter 20: THE PSEUDO-VERBAL CONSTRUCTION
• Chapter 21: THE STATIVE
• Chapter 22: OVERVIEW OF CLAUSES WITH VERBAL PREDICATE
• Chapter 23: THE PERFECT AND THE PASSIVE [PERFECT
• Chapter 24: THE PERFECTIVE
• Chapter 25: THE UNMARKED FORMS OF THE SUFFIX CONJUGATION
• Chapter 26: THE PROSPECTIVE FORMS OF THE SUFFIX CONJUGATION
• Chapter 27: THE SUBJUNCTIVE FORM OF THE SUFFIX CONJUGATION
• Chapter 28: THE CONTINGENT FORMS OF THE SUFFIX CONJUGATION
• Chapter 29: THE FORM
• Chapter 30: EXISTENTIAL CLAUSES AND THE PERIPHRASIS /SUBSTITUTION OF NON-VERBAL SENTENCE PATTERNS
• Chapter 31: THE IMPERATIVE
• Chapter 32: THE ADJECTIVAL EMBEDDING I –VIRTUAL AND MARKED ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
• Chapter 33: THE ADJECTIVAL EMBEDDING II –EMBEDDING OF A VERBAL PREDICATE WITHOUT THE RELATIVE ADJECTIVE
• Chapter 34: THE NOMINAL EMBEDDING I –MARKED NOUN CLAUSES
• Chapter 35: THE NOMINAL EMBEDDING II –VIRTUAL EMBEDDING OF A VERBAL PREDICATE
• Chapter 36: THE NOMINAL EMBEDDING III –PREPOSITIONAL ADVERB CLAUSES
• Chapter 37: TOPICALISED VERBS PHRASES
• Chapter 38: EMPHASISING SENTENCE PATTERNS
• Chapter 39: MARKERS FOR SPEECH AND STATEMENTS
• Chapter 40: AUXILIARY VERBS AND CONSTRUCTIONS CORRESPONDENT WITH ENGLISH MODAL VERBS
• APPENDIX
• SIGN LIST
• Word List
• TEXT EDITIONS AND REFERENCE BOOKS