Topics in Coptic Syntax: Structural Studies in the Bohairic Dialect (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta)

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Summing-up four decades of research into Egyptian and Coptic grammar, and more than two decades of research of Bohairic syntax, this work is a series of structural accounts of necessary sub-systems of Bohairic, in four chapters: Narrative and Dialogue Grammar, including tensing, texture and juncture; Nexus and Focalization Grammar, including the Nominal Sentence, Existential Statements, focussing and topicalization patterns; the Noun Syntagm, determination systems, generics, deixis, the Right kind Name, possesion, the notae relationis and inalienable association; juncture features: Linkage and Delimitation, reference juncture, graphemato-morphematic juncture, “Ordination” juncture. The outline is corpus-specific (the unedited Paris copte 1 Pentateuch, in constant comparison with the equally unedited Vat. copt 1), but at all times contrastive with the Nitrian and New Testament forms of Bohairic. The work aims at reinstating the Bohairic dialect as central within the synchronic and diachronic appreciation of Coptic grammar (and, within Bohairic, “rehabilitating” the all-necessary Nitrian variety); also, at proving the syntactical independence of the Bohairic text vis a vis the Greek original – indeed, at making the case, by contrastive analysis, for a better sophistication of the Bohairic system.

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