On Adverbial Ante-Position and Operator Scope in Coptic
It is argued that in Coptic ante-position of adverbial expressions may be motivated by a desire to delimit and indicate the precise scope of negative, modal, conditional and information-structuring operators. Two principal strategies are distinguished. The ante-position may serve to exclude an adver...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2012
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Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
Year: 2012, Volume: 139, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-102 |
| Further subjects: | B
Coptic language
B Negation B operators B ante-position B Pragmatics |
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| Summary: | It is argued that in Coptic ante-position of adverbial expressions may be motivated by a desire to delimit and indicate the precise scope of negative, modal, conditional and information-structuring operators. Two principal strategies are distinguished. The ante-position may serve to exclude an adverbial expression from falling within the scope of e.g. a negation. Conversely, a similar positioning of an adverbial may have the function of including it within the scope of an (initial) operator. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-713X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1524/zaes.2012.0009 |