AN OBSERVATION ON NOMINAL SENTENCES WITH N-DEMONSTRATIVES IN CLASSICAL EGYPTIAN

AN OBSERVATION ON NOMINAL SENTENCES

WITH N-DEMONSTRATIVES IN CLASSICAL

EGYPTIAN

EdmundS.Meltzer;;

【期刊名称】《世界古典文明史杂志：英文版》

【年(卷),期】1995(000)000

【摘要】The employment of both "bipartite" and "tripartite" nominal sentence patterns containing demonstratives of the n-series in Middle Egyptian~1 shows a characteristic sufficiently consistent to warrant the suggestion that a semantic constraint is operative: VIZ., that those sentences are employed with NPs that are [-PERSON], not [+PERSON]. Therefore, sentences such a s ~*R’/it.i/ink (pw) nn/nf(3)/n3/nw are excluded. In a sentence suc(?) as bit.i pw n3 "This is my character/conduct"~2, bit.i "my character/conduct" is [-PERSON], whereas one could not say, e.g., ~*s3. i pw n3 "This is my son." According to this hypothesis, all Middle Egyptian

【总页数】18页(P.83-100)

【关键词】玉竹;比久;刀工;比内;山凹

【作者】EdmundS.Meltzer;;

【作者单位】IHACNortheastNormalUniversity;PRC;

【正文语种】英文

【中图分类】K88