Deixis in Egyptian : the close, the distant, and the known

Kupreyev, Maxim N.

Deixis in Egyptian : the close, the distant, and the known - Leiden : Brill, 2023

Maxim N. Kupreyev, Ph.D. (2020), Freie Universität Berlin, is an Egyptologist and a researcher at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

In this volume, Maxim N. Kupreyev looks at the intricate stories of Egyptian-Coptic demonstratives and adverbs, personal, relative pronouns and definite articles. Applying the concepts of distance, contrast, and joint attention, the book offers a panorama of competing deitic systems in Old Kingdom Egypt. It singles out dialectal differences and outlines the history of deixis not as a linear development, but as a competition of regional variants that gradually attain normative status. The results of the study change the way we interpret the evolution of Ancient Egyptian, its periodization and its embedding in the Afro-Asiatic linguistic context.

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