RT Article
T1 The Forms of the Coptic 2nd Person Feminine Singular Pronouns
JF Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
VO 136
IS 2
SP 173
OP 188
A1 Uljas, Sami
LA English
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1966880413
AB The present article proposes a new analysis of the form and etymology of the Coptic 2nd person feminine singular suffix and prefix pronouns. It is suggested that in the tripartite conjugation and the conversions of the bipartite conjugation, the said person was expressed by using the bare pre-nominal conjugation base/converter (if such existed separately from the pre-pronominal form). Later, the bases and converters ending with re were reanalysed as consisting of a base + a suffix pronoun re. The rise of this new pronoun can be traced by studying manuscripts covering several centuries of language development. It is also proposed that the creation of the suffix motivated an analogous extension of re into the prefix of the 1 st present and future, where the older form te gradually gave way to a new and clearly secondary form ter.
K1 Grammaticalization
K1 Prefix
K1 Morphology
K1 Coptic language
DO 10.1524/zaes.2009.0020