Egyptian grammar
Subtitle: being an introduction to the study of hieroglyphs
By: by Sir Alan Gardiner
Edition: 3d ed., rev.
Publisher: Published on behalf of the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, by Oxford University Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
Subjects: Egyptian language; Hieroglyphic Writing; Grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The Egyptian language. The Egyptian writing. Brief history of Egyptian philology. Brief survey of Egyptian literature; title: Index of extracts adapted from original Egyptian texts and used as reading-lessons; title: Lesson I: The alphabet. Transliterature vocabulary and exercise I; title: Lesson II: Ideograms. Determinatives. Verbals and non-verbal sentences. Vocabulary and exercise II; title: Lesson III: Biliteral signs. Suffix-pronouns. The M of predication. The SDMF verb-form. Vocabulary and exercise III; title: Lesson IV: Triliteral signs. Dependent pronouns. Adjectives. Vocabulary and exercise III; title: Lesson V: Peculiarities of hieroglyphic writing. Independent pronouns. Word-order. The SDMNF verb-form. Vocabulary and exercise V; title: Lesson VI: Nouns and adjectives. Vocabulary and exercise VI; title: Lesson VII: Syntax of nouns and pronouns. Vocabulary and exercise VII; title: Excursus A: The titulary and other designations of the king; title: Lesson VIII: Syntax of adjectives. Equivalents of English adjectives, etc. Negation. Existential sentences. Vocabulary and exercise VIII; title: Lesson IX: Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns. Possessive adjectives. Sentences expressing possession. Vocabulary and exercise IX; title: Lesson X: Sentences with adverbial predicate. Vocabulary and exercise X; title: Lesson XI: Sentences with nominal or pronominal predicate. Vocabulary and exercise XI; title: Lesson XII: Sentences with adjectival predicate. Vocabulary and exercise XII; title: Lesson XIII: Anticipatory emphasis. Prepositions. Vocabulary and exercise XIII; title: Lesson XIV: Prepositions (cont.) Vocabulary and exercise XIV; title: Lesson XV: Subordinate clauses. Noun clauses. Vocabulary and exercise XV; title: Lesson XVI: Relative clauses. Vocabulary and exercise XVI; title: Lesson XVII: Adverbs. Adverb clauses. Vocabulary and exercise XVII; title: Excursus: The formula of offering employed in the funerary cult; title: Lesson XVIII: Direct and indirect speech. Non-enclitic particles. Vocabulary and exercise XVIII; title: Lesson XIX: Enclitic particles. Interjections. Vocabulary and exercise XIX; title: Lesson XX: Numbers. Weights and measures. Vocabulary and exercise XX; title: Excursus: The divisions of time and method of dating; title: Lesson XXI: The verb (introductory). The verb-classes. Voice, mood, and tense. Terminology; title: Lesson XXIA. The infinitive Vocabulary and exercise XXI; title: Lesson XXII: The old perfective. Vocabulary and exercise XXII; title: Lesson XXIII. The pseudo-verbal construction. Vocabulary and exercise XXIII; title: Lesson XXIV: The imperative. The negatival complement. The negative verb. Other modes of negation. Vocabulary and exercise XXIV; title: Lesson XXV: The participles. The SDMTY-FY form; title: Lesson XXVA: Uses of the participles and of the SDMTY-FY form. Vocabulary and exercise XXV; title: Lesson XXVI: Syntax of the participles and of the SDMTY-FY form. The relative forms. Vocabulary and exercise XXVI; title: Lesson XXVII: Special uses of the participles and relative forms. The SDMTF form. Vocabulary and exercise XXVII; title: Lessons XXIX: The passive SDMF form. The SDMMF form. THe SDMINF, SDMHRF and SDMK3F forms. Parenthetic phrases for 'said he', etc. Vocabulary and exercise XXIX; title: Lesson XXX: The SDMF form. The imperfect SDMF. Vocabulary and exercise XXX; title: Lesson XXXI: The perfective SDMF form. Vocabulary and exercise XXXI; title: Lesson XXXII: Compound narrative verb-forms. The auxiliary 'IW. THe auxiliary WNN. The auxiliary 'H'. Other auxiliary verbs. Concluding remarks on the suffix conjugation. Vocabulary and exercise XXXII; title: Lesson XXXIII: Different types of sentence. Questions. Interrogative pronouns and adverbs. Indirect questions. Multiple sentences. Ellipses. Final remarks on word-order. Concord. Vocabulary and exercise XXXIII; title: New paragraphs and other additions.