"I Advised You Like a Brother": Functive, Associative, Similative in Sahidic Coptic
The paper argues that the two Coptic (Sahidic) comparison markers, ϩⲱⲥ and ⲛⲑⲉ ⲛ-, are functionally and semantically distinct. Whereas ⲛⲑⲉ ⲛ- is used in similative constructions, ϩⲱⲥ establishes a secondary subject-predicate relation between the comparee and the standard (vehicle noun). Proposing th...
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Peeters
2023
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Journal of Coptic studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 25, Pages: 241-255 |
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