eprintid: 3976
rev_number: 15
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datestamp: 2018-05-18 06:27:02
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creators_name: Werning, Daniel A.
title: Ancient Egyptian prepositions for the expression
of spatial relations and their translations. A typological approach
subjects: ddc-932
divisions: i-209
cterms_swd: Altägyptisch
cterms_swd: Linguistik
cterms_swd: Präposition
abstract: The article explores the static spatial meaning of basic prepositions in Hieroglyphic Ancient Egyptian, as compared to eight modern target languages. The tertium comparationis is the typological-linguistic tool of the Topological Relations Picture Series. The author identifies as the basic meanings of some Egyptian prepositions: m IN and FROM; r ATTACHED, CLOSE_TO, and TO; ḥr SUPERIOR (i.e. VERT_ON + ABOVE) and AT; and ẖr INFERIOR (i.e. UNDER + BELOW); as well as m ẖnw INSIDE and WITHIN, and IN_THE_MIDDLE; dp (trad. tp) head.LOC, AT_TOP, and AHEAD; ḥr dp ON_TOP and ABOVE. Further, he highlights the case of the conflation of the meanings BEHIND and AROUND in ḥA, as well as the phenomenon of a ‘Paradoxical Figure–Ground Reversal’ as exemplified by Egyptian wrrt m dp (lit. great_crown IN head) ‘the Great Crown on the head’. Finally, the author suggests decomposing the dynamic meanings of prepositions as well as the dynamic meanings of verbs. He supports the analysis that, in contrast to e.g. English, in dynamic contexts, Egyptian prepositions often only encode the static source or goal configuration, but not the path proper.
date: 2012
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00003976
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-53
schriftenreihe_order: 8
ppn_swb: 1575908980
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-39762
language: eng
bibsort: WERNINGDANANCIENTEGY2012
full_text_status: public
series: Lingua Aegyptia : Studia Monographica
place_of_pub: Hamburg
pagerange: 293-346
book_title: Lexical semantics in ancient Egyptian
editors_name: Grossmann, Eitan
editors_name: Polis, Stéphane
editors_name: Winand, Jean
faecher: FAE
themen: T490
laender: R932
oa_type: green
citation:   Werning, Daniel A.  (2012) Ancient Egyptian prepositions for the expression of spatial relations and their translations. A typological approach.   In: Grossmann, Eitan ; Polis, Stéphane ; Winand, Jean (Hrsgg.):  Lexical semantics in ancient Egyptian.   Hamburg 2012, pp. 293-346 (Lingua Aegyptia : Studia Monographica)       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/3976/1/Werning_Egyptian_Prepositions_Spatial_Relations_2012.pdf