Conjunction, contiguity, contingency : on relationships between events in the Egyptian and Coptic verbal systems
New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good dust-wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #392657
ISBN: 0195080920
Physical description: xviii, 281 pages; 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Preface: On Relationships between Events; I: CONJUNCTION; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conjunctive as ""Con-joiner""; 3. The Conjunctive Following Second Tenses; 4. The Conjunctive Following the Negative Imperative of gmj ""find"" and nau ""see""; 5. Coptic nci in the Conjunctive Chain; 6. Negations in the Conjunctive Chain; 7. Semantic Types of Conjunctive Chains; 8. The Promissive Future and the Conjunctive in Coptic; 9. Translating the Conjunctive; 10. Relationship of the Conjunctive with What Precedes; 11. Conjunction beyond the Conjunctive; 12. Concluding Remarks; 13. A Bibliography of the Conjunctive-- II: CONTIGUITY; 1. Introduction: The Notion of ""Contiguity""; 2. Contiguity in Sinuhe B 200; 3. Contrastive Emphasis and Contiguity; 4. Translating Contiguous Events; 5. Morphological and Syntactic Criteria; 6. Events Prone to Contracting a Relationship of Contiguity; 7. Expressions of Contiguity in the Story of Sinuhe; 8. [sup(c)]h[sup(c)].n sdm.n=f. 9. Excursus: jwj ""come"" and jnj ""bring""; 10. Simultaneity as an Expression of Contiguity; 11. An Expression of Contiguity Dating to the New Kingdom --- III: CONTINGENCY; 1. Sdm.hr=f/hr=f sdm=f as Contingent Aorist; 2. Sdm.k3=f/k3(=f) sdm=f as Contingent Future; 3. Sdm.jn=f as Contingent Past; 4. Conclusion --- INDEXES. Subjects: Egyptian language Verb; Coptic language Verb; African Languages; Foreign Languages.
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