%0 Journal Article %J Orientalia %D 1989 %T The Narrative Verbal System of Old and Middle Egyptian %A Shisha-Halevy, Ariel %X

A review article of Éric Doret, The Narrative Verbal System of Old and Middle Egyptian.

The importance of the narrative parole to descriptive grammar is (esp. in a written or dead language) greater than that of dialogue, because of the heavier contribution of pragmatic factors and circumstances in the latter case; that is, in narrative these are “segmented” and cotextually given and the “environmental” factor is therefore much more considerably textual. This makes the book under review so important as a comprehensive component study of Egyptian grammar in general and an account of the Old and Middle Egyptian verb in particular.
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%B Orientalia %V 58 %P 247–254 %G eng