Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
James P. Allen is Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. His research focuses on ancient Egyptian religion and on the grammar and literature of the ancient Egyptian language. He has served as Curator of Ancient Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as President of the International Association of Egyptologists and is the author of A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, vol. 1: Unis, also published by Eisenbrauns.
<p>“The simultaneous grammar of six major Coptic idioms by James P. Allen is a singular work. It is a <i>must</i> for the teaching of Coptic dialect diversity.”</p><p>—Helmut Satzinger <i>Bibliotheca Orientalis</i></p>
Coptic is the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language, written in an alphabet derived primarily from Greek instead of hieroglyphs. It borrows some vocabulary from ancient Greek, and it was used primarily for writing Christian scriptures and treatises. There is no uniform Coptic language, but rather six major dialects.
Unlike previous grammars that focus on just two of the Coptic dialects, this volume, written by senior Egyptologist James P. Allen, describes the grammar of the language in each of the six major dialects. It also includes exercises with an answer key, a chrestomathy, and an accompanying dictionary, making it suitable for teaching or self-guided learning as well as general reference.
A current grammar of Coptic (the last stage of the ancient Egyptian language) that includes material from all six of its major dialects. Includes a chrestomathy of readings in the six dialects as well as a dictionary.
Preface
1. Writing and Phonology
2. Nouns and Adjectives
3. Pronouns
4. Numbers and Particles
5. Prepositions and Adverbs
6. Nominal and Adjectival Sentences
7. Verbs
8. The Bipartite Construction
9. The Tripartite Construction
10. Dependent Forms
11.Second Tenses
12.Complex Sentences
Answers to the Exercises
Chrestomathy
Dictionary
Bibliography
Abbreviations and References
Index
Languages of the Ancient Near East (LANE) is a series that encompasses a wide variety of titles pertaining to the Semitic and non-Semitic languages of ancient Western Asia. The subseries LANE Didactica (LANE-D) focuses on grammars and manuals geared particularly toward learners in various instructional settings. Although the primary emphasis of both LANE and LANE-D is on ancient languages, both series are open to works on languages or dialects of later periods, especially with regard to language history.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
James P. Allen is Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. His research focuses on ancient Egyptian religion and on the grammar and literature of the ancient Egyptian language. He has served as Curator of Ancient Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as President of the International Association of Egyptologists and is the author of A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, vol. 1: Unis, also published by Eisenbrauns.