Nominalizations as a source for verbal morphology. Grammaticalization paths of modality and information structure in Earlier Egyptian Elsa Oréal To cite this version: Elsa Oréal. Nominalizations as a source for verbal morphology. Grammaticalization paths of modality and information structure in Earlier Egyptian. Lingua Aegyptia - Journal of Egyptian Language Studies, Widmaier Verlag, 2017, pp.1-33. hal-01728636 HAL Id: hal-01728636 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01728636 Submitted on 19 Oct 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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Orders should be sent to the publisher: Widmaier Verlag, Kai Widmaier, Witthof 23F, 22305 Hamburg, Germany ([email protected]). www.widmaier-verlag.de ISSN 0942-5659 | ISBN 978-3-943955-65-1 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics (Crossroads V) Berlin, February 17–20, 2016 edited by Daniel A. Werning Widmaier Verlag ∙ Hamburg 2018 Titelaufnahme: Daniel A. Werning (ed.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics (Crossroads V) Berlin, February 17–20, 2016 Hamburg: Widmaier Verlag, 2018 (Lingua Aegyptia – Journal of Egyptian Language Studies; 25) ISSN 0942-5659 ISBN 978-3-943955-65-1 © Widmaier Verlag, Kai Widmaier, Hamburg 2018 Das Werk, einschließlich aller seiner Teile, ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Jede Verwertung außerhalb der engen Grenzen des Urheberrechtsgesetzes ist ohne Zustimmung des Verlages unzulässig und strafbar. Das gilt insbesondere für Vervielfältigungen, Übersetzungen, Mikroverfilmungen und die Einspeicherung und Verarbeitung in elektronischen Systemen. Gedruckt auf säurefreiem, archivierfähigem Papier. Druck und Verarbeitung: Hubert & Co., Göttingen Printed in Germany www.widmaier-verlag.de CONTENTS PREFACE ........................................................................................................ vii–x ARTICLES Marc Brose Das ägyptische Verb und der ägyptisch-semitische Sprachvergleich ......... 1–40 Gaëlle Chantrain & Camilla Di Biase-Dyson Making a Case for Multidimensionality in Ramesside Figurative Language ..................................................................................................... 41–66 Roberto A. Díaz Hernández Von wn.|n und wn zu ⲛⲉ. Ein diachroner Fall der Hintergrundinformation............................................................................... 67–81 Barbara Egedi Two Kinds of Definiteness in Coptic .......................................................... 83–99 Roman Gundacker Where to Place ‘Ältere Komposita’? Traces of Dialectal Diversity Among Early Toponyms and Theonyms ..................................................... 101–176 Elsa Oréal Nominalizations as a Source for Verbal Morphology. Grammaticalization Paths of Modality and Information Structure in Earlier Egyptian .............. 177–209 Helmut Satzinger Second Tenses in Egyptian-Coptic and Some Other African Languages ... 211–229 Wolfgang Schenkel |n-/= „sagt“ < |(.|) |n- „sagt(e), nämlich“ .................................................. 231–279 Gebhard J. Selz, Colette Grinevald & Orly Goldwasser The Question of Sumerian “Determinatives”. Inventory, Classifier Analysis, and Comparison to Egyptian Classifiers from the Linguistic Perspective of Noun Classification ............................................................. 281–344 Nathalie Sojic Identifying Late Egyptian Virtual Relative Clauses .................................... 345–372 vi Contents Elisabeth Steinbach-Eicke Experiencing is Tasting. Perception Metaphors of Taste in Ancient Egyptian ...................................................................................................... 373–390 Sami Uljas Where to Stick an Adverbial in Earlier Egyptian ........................................ 391–414 ADDRESSES OF THE AUTHORS .............................................................. 415–416 ADVERTISEMENTS LingAeg Studia Monographica: New Publication LingAeg 25 (2017), 177–209 Nominalizations as a Source for Verbal Morphology Grammaticalization Paths of Modality and Information Structure in Earlier Egyptian Elsa Oréal1 Abstract In Earlier Egyptian, verb forms whose translation involve some sort of modality include the sDm(w)-f, often called “Prospective,” and the “Emphatic” mrr-f form. Both have been rec- ognized to have nominal features, although their syntactic and discursive function remains a much discussed topic. This contribution proposes to reconstruct paths of change that explain the emergence of these forms out of former participant/event nominalizations marked for defi- niteness vs. indefiniteness. Exploring this hypothesis sheds light not only on what is inherently marked by the forms themselves, but also on the role of particular uses within distinct source constructions in elaborating their respective semantics. 1 From nominalizations to verbs There is nothing new to the idea that Earlier Egyptian verb forms emerged from former nominalizations2. Still, some space is left for a diachronic analysis aiming at reconstructing concrete paths that may have led constructions involving nominalized forms of the verb to grammaticalize as verb forms. More specifically, as more than one Earlier Egyptian verb form appears to have had a nominalized source, an explanation of their respective TAM function and the way it relates to their (visible) morphology is needed. In this contribution, I will focus on two forms that share some syntactic positions and are also sometimes deemed to have some semantic uses in common: – the <w> form or sDm-w-f, – the geminated form or mrr-f. 1 LLACAN-CNRS, Paris (Elsa.Oreal[at]cnrs.fr). Many thanks are due to Orly Goldwasser, Eitan Grossman, Frank Kammerzell and Stéphane Polis for discussing various questions related to my research on Egyptian nominalizations in a diachronic perspective. Daniel Werning