Coptic future tenses: syntactical studies in Sahidic

Marvin R. Wilson

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783111293134
• eBook ISBN:
  9783111679198
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Future III Conjugation
• 2.1. The Etymology of Future III
• 2.2. The Form of Future III
• 2.3. The Meaning of Future III
• 3. Final Clauses in Greek and Coptic
• 3.1. The Use of Final Particles in Greek
• 3.2. Various Types of Coptic Final Clauses
• 4. Future III in Final Clauses with jeka(a)s
• 4.1. Greek Constructions Lying Behind jeka(a)s
• 4.2. The Use of Final Clauses with jeka(a)s and Future III
• 4.3. Elements Between jeka(a)s and the Verbal Auxiliary
• 4.4. Jeka(a)s and the Conjunctive Tense
• 5. Future III in Final Clauses with je
• 5.1. Greek Constructions Lying Behind je
• 5.2. The Use of Final Clauses with je and Future III
• 5.3. Je and jeka(a)a in Contrasting and Parallel Clauses
• 5.4. Summary and Conclusion
• 6. Future III in Non-final Relationships
• 6.1. Commands
• 6.2. Prohibitions
• 6.3. Promises and Predictions
• 6.4. Wishes
• 7. The Future I Conjugation
• 7.1. The Etymology of Future I
• 7.2. The Form of Future I
• 7.3. The Meaning of Future I
• 8. Some Observations on the Construction of Sentences with Future I
• 8.1. The Translation of Future I from the Greek Verb
• 8.2. Future I Compounded with the Causative Infinitive
• 8.3. Future I with the Indefinite Actor Expression
• 9. Syntactical Aspects of Future I
• 9.1. Interrogative Sentences
• 9.2. Statements of Progressive Action
• 9.3. Future I as a True Future Tense
• 10. Conditional Sentences: Future I and Future III
• 10.1. Determined Conditions
• 10.2. Future and General Conditions
• 11. The Relative Future Tense Construction
• 11.1. Relative Future Rendered from the Greek Participle
• 11.2. Conditional Relative Clauses
• 11.3. Interrogative Sentences
• 11.4. Negation of Relative Future Clauses with Undefined Antecedent
• 11.5. Local Clauses
• 11.6. Other Uses of Relative Future
• 12. Miscellaneous Verbal Constructions Utilized to Express Future Action
• 12.1. The Šafsōtm Tense
• 12.2. The Conditional Conjugation
• 12.3. The Perfect Tense Used as Future Perfect
• 12.4. Greek μέλλω
• 13. Summary and Conclusions
• Appendix A: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future I in the Coptic New Testament
• Appendix B: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Relative Future in the Coptic New Testament
• Appendix C: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future III in the Coptic New Testament
• Appendix D: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future II in the Coptic New Testament
• Appendix E: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Circumstantial Future in the Coptic New Testament
• Appendix F: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future Imperfect in the Coptic New Testament
• Bibliography
• Index of Passages