Middle Egyptian

Peter Beylage

Published by Penn State University Press 2018

Middle Egyptian

Peter Beylage

Volume 9 in the series Languages of the Ancient Near East

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646022021

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Beylage Peter :

Peter Beylage is an independent scholar and specialist in the languages and archaeology of ancient Egypt.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xxix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I WRITING SYSTEM AND WORD CLASSES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
PART II OVERVIEW OF THE DIFFERENT SENTENCE PATTERNS AND NON-VERBAL SENTENCE PATTERNS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
PART III PSEUDO-VERBAL AND VERBAL CLAUSES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
PART IV EMBEDDED CLAUSES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
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Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 864
Keywords: Ancient Egyptian Language; Middle Eastern Language and Linguistics; Middle Eastern Studies; Grammar; Classical Studies

eBook

Published: September 12, 2018
ISBN: 9781646022021