Kanais Inscription; Seti I; Ramesside royal inscriptions; linguistic inclusiveness; linguistic dissimilation
Abstract :
[en] The present paper explores the linguistic complexity of Seti I’s Kanais Inscription through the perspective of linguistic dissimilation. The analysis focuses on the different grammatical realizations of future relative constructions (sDm.tj=fj, ntjj r sDm, ntjj tw=j/sw r sDm, and ntjj jw=f r sDm). I argue that the unusually high degree of linguistic dissimilation of future relative constructions can be interpreted as a form of linguistic inclusiveness. In the second half of the paper, further examples of linguistic dissimilation are discussed with regard to the various causal conjunctions (Hr-ntjj, pA-wn, mj, and xr) and the different vetitive constructions (sAw sDm=f, sAw tw=j/sw r sDm, and m-jr sDm) in the text.
Disciplines :
Classical & oriental studies
Author, co-author :
Paksi, Julianna Kitti ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences historiques > Archéologie égyptienne
Language :
English
Title :
Linguistic inclusiveness in Seti I’s Kanais Inscription
Publication date :
2015
Journal title :
Lingua Aegyptia
ISSN :
0942-5659
Publisher :
Universität Göttingen. Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Göttingen, Germany