James P. Allen (Rhode Island Brown University)

Ancient Egyptian Phonology

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Produktbeschreibung

Complements the author's widely-used Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 3rd edition (Cambridge, 2014). Uses an approachable treatment for linguists and scholars/students of ancient Near Eastern languages as well as Egyptologists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781108707305
• ISBN-10: 1108707300
• Artikelnr.: 56743386

Autorenporträt

James P. Allen is the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University, Rhode Island. A scholar of ancient Egyptian language and thought, he is the author of Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (Cambridge, 3rd edition, 2014) and The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study (Cambridge, 2013). Since 2010 he has been one of the leading scholars in a complete re-evaluation of the grammar as well as the phonology of the language.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Phonemes and Sounds: 1. Coptic
2. Demotic
3. Late Egyptian
4. Middle Egyptian
5. Old Egyptian
6. Phonemes and sounds
7. Phonoactics
8. Prosody
9. Dialects
Part II. Phonological Analysis: 10. Verb roots and stems
11. Verb forms
12. y in the pyramid texts
13. Vocalizing Egyptian.