Identifying Late Egyptian Virtual Relative Clauses

Ancient Egyptian so-called "virtual" relative clauses (VRC) are adverbial clauses that function like relative clauses. Descriptions provided by Late Egyptian grammars inform students of their existence and provide some translational devices. But they are not sufficient to describe the Late Egyptian relativization system in a linguistic perspective. The talk, given on the occasion of the international Crossroads V conference, aimed at providing interpretive guidelines based on syntax, pragmatics and discourse analysis. In my communication, I showed that discourse analysis proved to be very fruitful in clarifying some contexts of use of LEg VRCs as well as some interpretive processes.