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This quantity provides a singular research of supplement clauses in past Egyptian language. The grammar of those buildings is proven to be organised round a process for expressing Irrealis and Realis modality.

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In most instances, the comparisons will be drawn from languages with no relationship to Ancient Egyptian. Genetic matches demonstrate whether a certain feature exists or does not exist in some language group. However, parallelisms with unrelated languages have the advantage of showing that if a given meaning suspected as grammatically realised in the language under study is actually so treated in languages more far a field, this is likely to reflect some underlying cognitive aspect of human communication in general.

In Hm=f is in n=i sw Then his majesty said: “Go, bring him to me”. ” ‘Direct speech’ need not involve a verb of locution. S. 56–59) (just) a wave of the sea”. g. in (15) above, the real speaker (here the narrator) lends his voice to the original speaker, (the king) but the quote displays no signs 5 Halliday 1985, 255–56. g. 7 and Callender 1975, 74. e. in fleeting and without great concern at first. The text does not lose any of its elegance; indeed, the more one is able to recognise different rhetoric devices employed by the ancient authors, the lesser the danger of underestimating their expressive skills.

Swedish uses conditional vs. indicative and Finnish interrogative vs. indicative to identical effect. 28 Hooper 1975, 119; Wierzbicka 1988, 146. Cf. also Kiparsky & Kiparsky 1971, 349, who, however, explain this phenomenon by reference to ‘factivity’. 29 Cf. Butt & Benjamin 2000, 254. “Jack knows/sees that Jill is there but I don’t believe it”. Nevertheless, “Jack hears that Jill is there, but I don’t believe it” is more acceptable because auditory evidence is less reliable and easier for the real speaker to overrule.

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