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This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Champollion by uncovering a constellation of epistemological, political, and material conditions that made his decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs possible.
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This is the first accessible account the language of Ancient Egypt to use the insights of modern linguistics. Antonio Loprieno discusses the hieroglyphic... Læs mere
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Douglas Biber's new book extends and refines the research and methodology reported in his ground breaking Variation Across Speech and Writing (CUP, 1988), and adds for the first time a diachronic dimension.
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Focuses on the archaizing spirit that reached its climax under the Saite 26th Dynasty (664-525 B.C.), resurrecting elements from earlier stages of Egyptian civilization.
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Introducing poetry, prose, songs and theatre from Nigeria, this engaging volume blends translated extracts with a rich commentary on the historical development and modern context of this hugely creative culture.
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This book, the first of its kind, examines how the phonology and grammar of the ancient Egyptian language changed over more than three thousand years of... Læs mere
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This companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian contains eight literary works from the Middle... Læs mere
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Originally published in 1913, this book contains a dictionary of words in English and Galla, an earlier term for the Oromo language spoken in Eastern Africa.... Læs mere
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The contact zones between Greece and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of... Læs mere
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With facsimile reproductions of the manuscripts at actual size, the texts collected in this book were the first published specimens of Hausa writing. Each text is transcribed into roman script and an English translation is given on facing pages.
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This dictionary lists about 2,000 Coptic words whose etymology has been established from ancient Egyptian and Greek sources, covering two-thirds of the known Coptic vocabulary and complementing W. E. Crum's 1939 Coptic Dictionary, still the standard in the field.
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The first English dictionary of Hausa, the lingua franca of West and Central Africa, was originally published in 1899, and this expanded fourth edition dates from 1925.... Læs mere