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Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic Dialect): A Learner's Grammar

By Chris H. Reintges

Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic Dialect): A Learner's Grammar

By Chris H. Reintges

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This book offers a comprehensive description of Sahidic, the main reference dialect of Coptic Egyptian. Coptic Egyptian (not to be confused with Egyptian Arabic) is the vernacular of late-antique and medieval Christian Egypt (from about the third to the eleventh century CE) and represents the final developmental stage of Ancient Egyptian. With its rich literary sources, Coptic is an ancient language of great cultural importance. It also provides an interesting case of the emergence of a language through intensive contact (Egyptian-Greek) in a bilingual speech community. For this reason, the study of the Coptic language is of central interest for scientific disciplines as diverse as Egyptology, Ancient History, comparative religion, and various fields of linguistics (e.g. comparative Afroasiatic linguistics, language typology, historical syntax). This study therefore has a dual purpose: on the one hand, it serves as a teaching grammar for the language learner by providing an introduction to Sahidic Coptic. On the other hand, it contains the synthesis of extensive research on Coptic clause structure, which makes it a suitable reference tool for philologists and linguists alike. This comprehensive grammar provides an up-to-date treatment of the structure of Sahidic Coptic that is accessible to a broad linguistic and Egyptological readership. It is a data-oriented and strictly synchronic study of the language system. In terms of organisation, it follows the classical model of reference grammars with chapters on phonology, morphology, tense-aspect-mood marking, and clause structure. Designed as an introductory grammar, it comprises a large amount of didactic material which is inspired of modern language teaching. - For the 2nd edition 2018, the manuscript was completely revised and enlarged by an index.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
640
Release Date:
2004-03-02
Publication Date:
2004
Publisher:
Rüdiger Köppe
Languages:
Published: English
ISBN10:
3896455702
Weight:
1070 g
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