Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Typological Perspective Gebunden

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-lingui stic 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.