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- Title: Temps Et Aspect En Egyptien (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 190 KB
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Temps et aspect en egyptien: Une approche semantique. BY JEAN WINAND. Probleme der Agyptologie, vol. 25. Leiden: BRILL, 2006. Pp. xi + 485. [euro] 175. This book studies questions of aspect as a property of verb forms in ancient Egyptian, more specifically in the first three of the five stages traditionally distinguished in the history of the language, namely Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, and Late Egyptian (2500-1000 B.C.E.). I began reading the book in the awareness that someone whose opinion in linguistic matters I greatly value once told me to read as little about aspect as possible when analyzing Egyptian. This warning in fact resonates in the book's first pages. It is acknowledged more than once that the treatment of aspect in linguistic writings resembles a cacophony. The book begins by quoting C. Vet (Temps, aspect et adverbes de temps en francais contemporain [Geneva: Droz, 1980], 46), who writes, "Absent all formal characteristics on which an analysis could be based, aspect and Aktionsart have become the most intangible notions of traditional grammar" (my translation). When so many observers say so much that is contradictory about little or no empirical evidence, questions arise. Surely, at least some opinions must be right and others wrong. Or can such widely disparate views possibly be joined in a higher harmony? Are a few rare views perhaps even plainly invented, mere figments of the imagination?
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