Gundacker, Roman (2022)
The Morphological and Graphical Substitution of Ältere Komposita. Etymological Archaism and Contemporaneous Perception as Opposing Principles
In: Lingua Aegyptia. Journal of Egyptian Language Studies 30, 113–154.

Lengths of the embargo period: Open Access

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/lingaeg.30.04

Abstract

In the third millennium BC, Ältere Komposita were a prolific kind of compound nouns with specific morphological features, above all, word stress on a non-last constituent. In order to match the stress and syllable structure patterns of younger stages of ancient Egyptian, Ältere Komposita were either mutilated or substituted with neologisms. At the same time, the graphical representation of retained Ältere Komposita became a playground for the learnèd élite between the poles of tradition and innovative substitution. This contribution explores strategies of substitution in the realms of morphology and of writing.

Project

Challenging Time(s)´ – A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology ( CT)

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 757951 and is hosted at the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The results published are solely within the author’s responsibility and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Research Council or the European Commission who must not be held responsible for either contents or their further use.

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