The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic

The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined regions. Originating from the Old Egyptian pro...

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Autor principal:	Maxim Kupreyev
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Materias:	definiteness definite indefinite and zero article noun categories specific and generic nouns Egyptian-Coptic Ancient history D51-90 History of the arts NX440-632
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2d7d263a124842c0aa12b9155ed5a1c42021-11-27T13:19:31ZThe Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic10.12797/SAAC.18.2014.18.141899-15482449-867Xhttps://doaj.org/article/2d7d263a124842c0aa12b9155ed5a1c42014-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/saac/article/view/3090https://doaj.org/toc/1899-1548https://doaj.org/toc/2449-867X The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined regions. Originating from the Old Egyptian pronominal stems p-/t-/n-, the use of these new demonstratives expands rapidly during the Middle Kingdom. In their weak form as definite articles, they indicate that a noun is knownin discourse and thus signal a hitherto hidden grammatical category – definiteness. Once the definite article is grammaticalised and starts to be used with a priori definite nouns such as pA nTr wa ‘the sole god’ or pA HqA ‘the ruler’ (18th Dynasty), the indefinite article appears. The further development in Demotic and Coptic shows that the article was on the way to becoming a noun marker. When attached to a relative phrase, it created a new noun, which could be further determined (xenpetnanouf ‘some good deeds’, ppetouaab ‘the saint’). The following article traces the regional origins of the definite article as well as the main principles governing their development. Maxim KupreyevKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticledefinitenessdefiniteindefinite and zero articlenoun categoriesspecific and generic nounsEgyptian-CopticAncient historyD51-90History of the artsNX440-632ENFRStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, Vol 18 (2014)
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description	The first appearance of the emphatic demonstratives pA/tA/nA in northern Egyptian letters of the 6th Dynasty and their absence from southern Egyptian sources indicates the growing difference between the language variants spoken in these broadly defined regions. Originating from the Old Egyptian pronominal stems p-/t-/n-, the use of these new demonstratives expands rapidly during the Middle Kingdom. In their weak form as definite articles, they indicate that a noun is knownin discourse and thus signal a hitherto hidden grammatical category – definiteness. Once the definite article is grammaticalised and starts to be used with a priori definite nouns such as pA nTr wa ‘the sole god’ or pA HqA ‘the ruler’ (18th Dynasty), the indefinite article appears. The further development in Demotic and Coptic shows that the article was on the way to becoming a noun marker. When attached to a relative phrase, it created a new noun, which could be further determined (xenpetnanouf ‘some good deeds’, ppetouaab ‘the saint’). The following article traces the regional origins of the definite article as well as the main principles governing their development.
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The Origins and Development of the Definite Article in Egyptian-Coptic

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