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Studies in Nominal Modification in Bohairic Coptic

Sedarous, Yourdanis
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461049426

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2016, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Linguistics.
Linguists specializing in Afro-Asiatic languages have, more often than not, focused on the Semitic branch, e.g Arabic and Hebrew. In doing so, much attention has been paid to certain phenomena that are characteristic of the Afro-Asiatic language family: (i) the bipartite and tripartite consonantal root system, allowing for non-concatenative (using the traditional interpretation of concatenation) morphological inflection (McCarthy 1981), (ii) definiteness spreading throughout the noun phrase (Ritter 1991/1992), (iii) the construct state (CS), and (iv) the interaction between VSO and SVO canonical word orders (Ouhalla 1994). Following in their footsteps, I pursue investigation of similar phenomena, however, this time within Bohairic Coptic. Coptic is the final stage of the Egyptian languages, and was spoken from the fourth to the fourteenth century CE, and the Bohairic dialect survives today, as the liturgical language within the Coptic Orthodox Church. In this thesis, I argue that a Functional approach to grammar best captures the cross linguistic variation, intra-linguistic variation, and contact induced changes found in the data revolving around the noun phrase in Bohairic Coptic. I then show the importance of focusing an investigation around the phrases, within the nominal system, that utilize the particle `n, because of `n’s manifestation in various phrases, as well as the historical progression of the phrases in which it appears throughout various stages of Egyptian.
Peter Culicover (Advisor)
Brian Joseph (Advisor)
65 p.
Linguistics

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  • Sedarous, Y. (2016). Studies in Nominal Modification in Bohairic Coptic [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461049426

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sedarous, Yourdanis. Studies in Nominal Modification in Bohairic Coptic. 2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461049426.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sedarous, Yourdanis. "Studies in Nominal Modification in Bohairic Coptic." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461049426

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