Table of contents for Middle Egyptian : an introduction to the language and culture of hieroglyphs / James P. Allen.


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1. Language and writing: Ancient Egyptian history
2. The sounds of Middle Egyptian: Ancient Egyptian geography
3. Multiliteral signs: Ancient Egyptian society
4. Nouns: the gods
5. Pronouns: the gods on earth
6. Adjectives: the kings' names
7. Adjectival and nominal sentences: human nature
8. Prepositions and adverbs: death and the afterlife
9. Numbers: Egyptian chronology
10. Adverbial sentences: Maat
11. Nonverbal sentences: the world before creation
12. Nonverbal clauses: the creation of the world
13. Verbs: the creative word
14. The infinitival forms: the Memphite theology
15. The pseudoverbal construction: the creator
16. The imperative and particles: heresy
17. The stative: phonology and writing
18. The perfect: Egyptian literature
19. The subjunctive: Middle Egyptian wisdom literature
20. The perfective and imperfective: Middle Egyptian stories
21. The prospective and passive: historical texts
22. Other forms of the suffix conjugation: religious texts
23. The participles: hymns and poetry
24. The relative forms: nonliterary texts
25. Special uses of the relative forms: letters
26. Middle Egyptian grammar
References
Sign list
Dictionary
Answers to the exercises.


Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Egyptian language Grammar