This volume presents the Egyptian-Coptic language in cross-linguistic ('typological')
perspective. It is aimed at linguists of all stripes especially typologists historical
linguists and specialists in Egyptian-Coptic Afroasiatic languages or African languages.
Uniquely the contributions are written by both typologists and experts of Egyptian-Coptic and
typologists. The former provide case studies dealing with particular aspects of the various
phases of the Egyptian-Coptic language (e.g. COLLIER on conditional constructions) while the
latter situate Egyptian-Coptic data in cross-linguistic perspective (e.g. those by GUELDEMANN
and GENSLER). The volume also includes an introductory section that includes an overview of the
Egyptian-Coptic language (HASPELMATH) a sketch of its sociohistorical setting (GROSSMAN &
RICHTER) its relationship with language typology (RICHTER) and the way in which
Egyptian-Coptic data should be presented to nonspecialists focusing on transliteration and
glossing (GROSSMAN & HASPELMATH).This is the first book to bring together language typology and
the Egyptian-Coptic language in an explicit fashion.
