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Ägyptologische “Binsen”-Weisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen, 2022
Robert J. Demarée, Kathrin Gabler, Stéphane Polis, A Family Affair in the Community of Deir el-Me... more Robert J. Demarée, Kathrin Gabler, Stéphane Polis, A Family Affair in the Community of Deir el-Medina: Gossip Girls in two 19th Dynasty Letters. In Svenja Gülden / Tobias Konrad / Ursula Verhoeven (Hrsg.), Ägyptologische “Binsen”-Weisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen. Akten der internationalen Tagung in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz im Dezember 2019, Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. Einzelveröffentlichung 17, Stuttgart 2022 (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz), pp. 43–126.
In this paper, we publish two letters found by E. Schiaparelli in Deir el-Medina (1908). These can be dated to the mid-19th Dynasty (c. year 45–50 of Ramesses II) based on palaeographical and prosopographical clues. They add to the body of evidence for epistolary communications between women in the community of workers. In complex interactions (involving numerous quotes based on hearsay), the daughters and other female relatives of Tꜣ-ḫꜥ.t (ii) complain about the evil behavior of their mother and each other. The scribal hand is the same for both letters, though the letters were sent by different individuals, and it reveals the writing habits of a scribe who was active during the first part of the reign of Ramesses II. As such, autographs can be excluded.
Background documents: N1944 Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS. Michael Everson.... more Background documents: N1944 Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS. Michael Everson. 1999-01-09. L2/15-123 Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs (revised). Bob Richmond. 2015-05-04. L2/16-018 Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs (revised). Bob Richmond, Andrew Glass. 2016-01-27. L2/16-090 Comments on three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Vinodh Rajan. 2016-04-25. L2/16-104 Observations: L2/16-090 [Egyptian]. Bob Richmond. 2016-05-02. L2/16-177 A comprehensive system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text (preliminary version). Mark-Jan Nederhof, et al. 2016-06-30. L2/16-210R A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text. Mark-Jan Nederhof, et al. 2016-07-25, revised 2017-01-25. L2/16-214 An Extension to the three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs and some additional remarks. Bob Richmond. 2016-08-01. L2/16-231 Proposal fo...
Crossing the epistemological and methodological boundaries between disciplines in Egyptology and ... more Crossing the epistemological and methodological boundaries between disciplines in Egyptology and beyond, the present project sets out to understand the life of a particular category of complex documents: the 'heterogeneous' papyri which bear several texts belonging to various genres (such as, for instance, accounts, poems, hymns and letters). They are of primary importance for the study of the wide competence and the performance of ancient scribes at work. In this project, we target the rich papyrological material that stems from the village of Deir el-Medina, which housed the families of the workmen who built the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the New Kingdom (c. 1350–1000 BCE). This highly literate community produced an unparalleled quantity of texts and inscriptions. Building on existing collaborations between the partners (the university of Basel, the university of Liège, and the Museo Egizio of Turin), the five main goals of our research project are (1) t...
This paper aims at demonstrating how information on the paths of semantic extensions undergone by... more This paper aims at demonstrating how information on the paths of semantic extensions undergone by content words may be incorporated into semantic maps. For this purpose, particular changes that affected the meanings of words in the course of the Ancient Greek and of the Ancient Egyptian language history will be investigated. The semantic map model was initially created in order to describe the polysemic patterns of grammatical morphemes (e.g. Haspelmath, 2003). However, recent studies by François (2008), Perrin (2010), Wälchli and Cysouw (2012), and Georgakopoulos et al. (2016) have drawn attention to the lexical domain, showing that the model can be extended to lexical items. It should be noted that the bulk of research has been adopting a synchronic perspective and the limited research that has added the diachronic dimension, has focused mostly on the grammatical domain (e.g. Narrog, 2010). In this paper, we analyze the diachronic evolution of the polysemy network of lexemes in or...
In this paper, we intend to show how the tools developed for building and exploiting a richly ann... more In this paper, we intend to show how the tools developed for building and exploiting a richly annotated corpus like Ramses are changing the methods and practices in Egyptian linguistics. We argue that the wide range of capabilities of Ramses is likely to impact the study of other text languages. Accordingly, a particular emphasis will be put on the new avenues of research that Ramses opens up for the study of ancient languages in general.
Ce volume de mélanges rassemble des contributions d'ami(e)s, collègues et élèves de Pasca... more Ce volume de mélanges rassemble des contributions d'ami(e)s, collègues et élèves de Pascal Vernus, directeur d'études émérite à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). La diversité des thèmes égyptologiques abordés illustre les centres d'intérêts de Pascal Vernus, dont l'oeuvre abondante a tant fait progresser la connaissance dans nombre de domaines. Publication de documents inédits, réflexions sur la richesse de l'écriture égyptienne, études de lexicographie, analyses linguistiques, observations sur l'idéologie et la culture de l'Égypte ancienne, autant de sujets traités ici qui ont pour dénominateur commun l'insatiable curiosité scientifique de Pascal Vernus.
This paper gathers a number of texts that it argues were written by a single scribe from Deir el-... more This paper gathers a number of texts that it argues were written by a single scribe from Deir el-Medina who lived during the first half of the 19th Dynasty and who was active mostly during the reign of Ramesses II. The identification of these texts takes as its point of departure the archeological context of ‘Maison G/J’, situated north of the Ptolemaic temple and to the east of the Grand Puits. Based on paleographic, orthographic, and thematic evidence, the paper shows that this scribe wrote a series of hymns to Amun that are expressive of a vivid personal piety. By correlating certain features of this scribe’s handwriting, it further argues that the same scribe was also responsible for hymns addressed to the deities Mut, Taweret, and Iaret, as well as for a hymn to Thebes. Outside of the literary realm, the same hand is attested in administrative documents, including letters that allow us to situate the scribe in question within a family of draughtsmen. The paper identifies this p...
Language and Linguistics Compass
The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been used intensively... more The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been used intensively during the past three decades for studying a variety of cross-linguistic and language-specific questions. This method enables the capturing of regular patterns of semantic structure based on similarities of form-meaning correspondence across languages. It has been fruitfully applied to the study of a variety of topics in linguistic typology, semantics, and historical linguistics and plays a prominent role in modern linguistic theory. This teaching and learning guide aims to provide readers with (a) key relevant works in the field, (b) additional information about online electronic resources and software solutions for graph visualization, and (c) material that can be used in order to introduce the semantic map model and its applications in the context of courses on linguistic typology, historical linguistics, and computational linguistics. Four modules are suggested for each course (two shared introductory modules and two specific modules). Alternatively, the eight modules can be clustered in the framework of a single seminar on semantic maps.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 2014
Document Numerique, Apr 1, 2014
Nous proposons de réviser le codage de l'égyptien ancien qui repose sur un standard nommé « Manue... more Nous proposons de réviser le codage de l'égyptien ancien qui repose sur un standard nommé « Manuel de Codage » (1988) ne répondant pas aux besoins actuels dans la création de corpus hiéroglyphiques. Une analyse des 60 000 graphies du corpus Ramsès nous permet de faire deux propositions concrètes concernant, d'une part, les principes présidant à l'encodage des graphies hiéroglyphiques dans les corpus annotés et, d'autre part, la nécessaire refonte du répertoire des signes hiéroglyphiques. ABSTRACT. Based on an analysis of the 60 000 spellings found in the Ramses corpus, we show that the encoding scheme that is used for hieroglyphic texts, known as the Manuel de Codage (1988), is problematic for the development of text corpora in general. We consequently (1) argue in favour of basic principles that should be followed when encoding hieroglyphic texts in the framework of corpus projects, and (2) suggest guidelines for a new encoding scheme, especially with respect to the structure of the sign-list.
Ägyptologische “Binsen”-Weisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen, 2022
Robert J. Demarée, Kathrin Gabler, Stéphane Polis, A Family Affair in the Community of Deir el-Me... more Robert J. Demarée, Kathrin Gabler, Stéphane Polis, A Family Affair in the Community of Deir el-Medina: Gossip Girls in two 19th Dynasty Letters. In Svenja Gülden / Tobias Konrad / Ursula Verhoeven (Hrsg.), Ägyptologische “Binsen”-Weisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen. Akten der internationalen Tagung in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz im Dezember 2019, Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. Einzelveröffentlichung 17, Stuttgart 2022 (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz), pp. 43–126.
In this paper, we publish two letters found by E. Schiaparelli in Deir el-Medina (1908). These can be dated to the mid-19th Dynasty (c. year 45–50 of Ramesses II) based on palaeographical and prosopographical clues. They add to the body of evidence for epistolary communications between women in the community of workers. In complex interactions (involving numerous quotes based on hearsay), the daughters and other female relatives of Tꜣ-ḫꜥ.t (ii) complain about the evil behavior of their mother and each other. The scribal hand is the same for both letters, though the letters were sent by different individuals, and it reveals the writing habits of a scribe who was active during the first part of the reign of Ramesses II. As such, autographs can be excluded.
Background documents: N1944 Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS. Michael Everson.... more Background documents: N1944 Encoding Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS. Michael Everson. 1999-01-09. L2/15-123 Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs (revised). Bob Richmond. 2015-05-04. L2/16-018 Proposal to encode three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs (revised). Bob Richmond, Andrew Glass. 2016-01-27. L2/16-090 Comments on three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Vinodh Rajan. 2016-04-25. L2/16-104 Observations: L2/16-090 [Egyptian]. Bob Richmond. 2016-05-02. L2/16-177 A comprehensive system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text (preliminary version). Mark-Jan Nederhof, et al. 2016-06-30. L2/16-210R A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text. Mark-Jan Nederhof, et al. 2016-07-25, revised 2017-01-25. L2/16-214 An Extension to the three control characters for Egyptian Hieroglyphs and some additional remarks. Bob Richmond. 2016-08-01. L2/16-231 Proposal fo...
Crossing the epistemological and methodological boundaries between disciplines in Egyptology and ... more Crossing the epistemological and methodological boundaries between disciplines in Egyptology and beyond, the present project sets out to understand the life of a particular category of complex documents: the 'heterogeneous' papyri which bear several texts belonging to various genres (such as, for instance, accounts, poems, hymns and letters). They are of primary importance for the study of the wide competence and the performance of ancient scribes at work. In this project, we target the rich papyrological material that stems from the village of Deir el-Medina, which housed the families of the workmen who built the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings during the New Kingdom (c. 1350–1000 BCE). This highly literate community produced an unparalleled quantity of texts and inscriptions. Building on existing collaborations between the partners (the university of Basel, the university of Liège, and the Museo Egizio of Turin), the five main goals of our research project are (1) t...
This paper aims at demonstrating how information on the paths of semantic extensions undergone by... more This paper aims at demonstrating how information on the paths of semantic extensions undergone by content words may be incorporated into semantic maps. For this purpose, particular changes that affected the meanings of words in the course of the Ancient Greek and of the Ancient Egyptian language history will be investigated. The semantic map model was initially created in order to describe the polysemic patterns of grammatical morphemes (e.g. Haspelmath, 2003). However, recent studies by François (2008), Perrin (2010), Wälchli and Cysouw (2012), and Georgakopoulos et al. (2016) have drawn attention to the lexical domain, showing that the model can be extended to lexical items. It should be noted that the bulk of research has been adopting a synchronic perspective and the limited research that has added the diachronic dimension, has focused mostly on the grammatical domain (e.g. Narrog, 2010). In this paper, we analyze the diachronic evolution of the polysemy network of lexemes in or...
In this paper, we intend to show how the tools developed for building and exploiting a richly ann... more In this paper, we intend to show how the tools developed for building and exploiting a richly annotated corpus like Ramses are changing the methods and practices in Egyptian linguistics. We argue that the wide range of capabilities of Ramses is likely to impact the study of other text languages. Accordingly, a particular emphasis will be put on the new avenues of research that Ramses opens up for the study of ancient languages in general.
Ce volume de mélanges rassemble des contributions d'ami(e)s, collègues et élèves de Pasca... more Ce volume de mélanges rassemble des contributions d'ami(e)s, collègues et élèves de Pascal Vernus, directeur d'études émérite à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). La diversité des thèmes égyptologiques abordés illustre les centres d'intérêts de Pascal Vernus, dont l'oeuvre abondante a tant fait progresser la connaissance dans nombre de domaines. Publication de documents inédits, réflexions sur la richesse de l'écriture égyptienne, études de lexicographie, analyses linguistiques, observations sur l'idéologie et la culture de l'Égypte ancienne, autant de sujets traités ici qui ont pour dénominateur commun l'insatiable curiosité scientifique de Pascal Vernus.
This paper gathers a number of texts that it argues were written by a single scribe from Deir el-... more This paper gathers a number of texts that it argues were written by a single scribe from Deir el-Medina who lived during the first half of the 19th Dynasty and who was active mostly during the reign of Ramesses II. The identification of these texts takes as its point of departure the archeological context of ‘Maison G/J’, situated north of the Ptolemaic temple and to the east of the Grand Puits. Based on paleographic, orthographic, and thematic evidence, the paper shows that this scribe wrote a series of hymns to Amun that are expressive of a vivid personal piety. By correlating certain features of this scribe’s handwriting, it further argues that the same scribe was also responsible for hymns addressed to the deities Mut, Taweret, and Iaret, as well as for a hymn to Thebes. Outside of the literary realm, the same hand is attested in administrative documents, including letters that allow us to situate the scribe in question within a family of draughtsmen. The paper identifies this p...
Language and Linguistics Compass
The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been used intensively... more The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been used intensively during the past three decades for studying a variety of cross-linguistic and language-specific questions. This method enables the capturing of regular patterns of semantic structure based on similarities of form-meaning correspondence across languages. It has been fruitfully applied to the study of a variety of topics in linguistic typology, semantics, and historical linguistics and plays a prominent role in modern linguistic theory. This teaching and learning guide aims to provide readers with (a) key relevant works in the field, (b) additional information about online electronic resources and software solutions for graph visualization, and (c) material that can be used in order to introduce the semantic map model and its applications in the context of courses on linguistic typology, historical linguistics, and computational linguistics. Four modules are suggested for each course (two shared introductory modules and two specific modules). Alternatively, the eight modules can be clustered in the framework of a single seminar on semantic maps.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 2014
Document Numerique, Apr 1, 2014
Nous proposons de réviser le codage de l'égyptien ancien qui repose sur un standard nommé « Manue... more Nous proposons de réviser le codage de l'égyptien ancien qui repose sur un standard nommé « Manuel de Codage » (1988) ne répondant pas aux besoins actuels dans la création de corpus hiéroglyphiques. Une analyse des 60 000 graphies du corpus Ramsès nous permet de faire deux propositions concrètes concernant, d'une part, les principes présidant à l'encodage des graphies hiéroglyphiques dans les corpus annotés et, d'autre part, la nécessaire refonte du répertoire des signes hiéroglyphiques. ABSTRACT. Based on an analysis of the 60 000 spellings found in the Ramses corpus, we show that the encoding scheme that is used for hieroglyphic texts, known as the Manuel de Codage (1988), is problematic for the development of text corpora in general. We consequently (1) argue in favour of basic principles that should be followed when encoding hieroglyphic texts in the framework of corpus projects, and (2) suggest guidelines for a new encoding scheme, especially with respect to the structure of the sign-list.
Ce volume de mélanges rassemble des contributions d'ami(e)s, collègues et élèves de Pascal Vernus... more Ce volume de mélanges rassemble des contributions d'ami(e)s, collègues et élèves de Pascal Vernus, directeur d'études émérite à l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). La diversité des thèmes égyptologiques abordés illustre les centres d'intérêts de Pascal Vernus, dont l'oeuvre abondante a tant fait progresser la connaissance dans nombre de domaines. Publication de documents inédits, réflexions sur la richesse de l'écriture égyptienne, études de lexicographie, analyses linguistiques, observations sur l'idéologie et la culture de l'Égypte ancienne, autant de sujets traités ici qui ont pour dénominateur commun l'insatiable curiosité scientifique de Pascal Vernus.
Forms and Functions: Studies in Ancient Egyptian Grammar, ed. Eitan Grossman, Stephane Polis, Andreas Stauder & Jean Winand. Widmaier Verlag., 2014
This volume comprises ten studies on the grammar of Ancient Egyptian. Some of these studies are b... more This volume comprises ten studies on the grammar of Ancient Egyptian. Some of these studies are based on papers presented at a workshop on New Directions in Egyptian Syntax (12-14 May, 2011, Liège).
International Workshop "Tomb Construction in New Kingdom Egypt", University of Copenhagen, 21-22 ... more International Workshop "Tomb Construction in New Kingdom Egypt", University of Copenhagen, 21-22 September 2017.
Egyptian archaeology provides us with two kinds or sets of data to investigate how private tombs were practically made in the Theban Necropolis during the New Kingdom: the monuments themselves, of course; but also, a rather sizable quantity of administrative texts (more than a hundred preserved documents, published and unpublished, are directly relevant). A systematic survey of this textual corpus allows us to suggest definitions for problematic lexemes referring to various steps of the tomb production process (such as š(ʿ)d, ȝȝʿ, dg(ȝ), ḫmʿ, etc.) and to specify the (chrono-)logical sequence of the actions referred to, investigating which activities were taking place at the same time, how the work was distributed between various categories of workmen or trades (such as the ẖrtj.w, ḫmʿ, sš-qd or sš), in which section of the tomb the work was conducted, and how its output was recorded and measured (with units of length or of volume: mḥ, dnj, nbj, trỉ.t, etc.). This emic approach can then be compared to the archaeological and material evidence of the tombs themselves. Such a combined analysis, complemented by an experimental dimension, certainly leads to some sort of a pattern or general — ideal — procedure but, maybe more importantly, also reveals a high degree of variability from case to case, according to different circumstances, including purely individual factors. It allows us as well to gauge the time-span needed to produce an excavated and decorated elite tomb of the Theban type, from a few months for the smallest to many years for the most ambitious ones, with a rather clear evolution in the invested economical means through time (including within the 18th dynasty). The different types of data converge to demonstrate the high level of specialization and expertise of the various practitioners involved in the making of such tombs, with consequences on their availability, employability and identity. At the end of the tomb making process, the painters —also responsible for the composition and so-called preliminary “drawings” of sculpted decoration — were expert in the art and technology of painting, but also in iconographic matters, showing a great ability in designing complete scenes with minimal information or indication. In this respect, the study of the Vorlagen material relating to their work sheds light on the range of freedom they could enjoy, as well as on differences to take into account between textual and iconographic production for the decoration of those tombs.
This paper aims at contrasting the semantic extension of time-related lexemes in Ancient Greek an... more This paper aims at contrasting the semantic extension of time-related lexemes in Ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian – Coptic in order to identify shared cognitive motivations and to assess the potential impact of cultural factors on the evolution of this lexical field in both languages. In doing so we first take as a point of departure semantic networks inferred from synchronic polysemy data in large language samples, such as Youn et al. (2016) and CLICS (List et al., 2014). In a second step, we identify the lexemes that lexicalize meanings associated with DAY/DAYTIME/TIME in Ancient Greek (8th – 1st c. BC) and Ancient Egyptian (26th c. BC – 10th c. AD), two languages with significant diachronic material. The data are extracted from dictionaries, grammars, and from the Perseus digital library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/) for Ancient Greek, and from the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (http://aaew.bbaw.de/tla/), the Ramses corpus (http://ramses.ulg.ac.be), and Coptic etymological dictionaries for Ancient Egyptian. Based on this diachronic material we describe the semantic extensions of time-related lexemes and map them onto the synchronic polysemy networks. In a final step, our results are checked against The Catalogue of Semantic Shifts in the Languages of the World (http://semshifts.iling-ran.ru/). Fig. 1 exemplifies how meaning extension may be added to polysemy networks. A diachronic analysis reveals that, for the Ancient Greek lexical unit hṓra, the meaning ‘time’ is historically prior to the meaning ‘hour.’ Accordingly, we may add a directed arrow representing the directionality of change from ‘time’ to ‘hour.’ Similarly, Ancient Egyptian data points to an extension of the polysemy network of the lexical unit tr – originally meaning ‘time,’ ‘moment in time’ – to ‘season’ (cf. Coptic ⲧⲏ tê ‘time, season’). One can then describe the cognitive motivations (e.g., metaphor, metonymy, etc.) for meaning extensions and analyze the cultural factors underlying the observed evolutions. In the case of the Greek word hṓra, for instance, a metonymic motivation between TIME and HOUR could be established. Finally, the analysis can be refined by searching in the corpus bridging contexts that allow such extensions of the polysemy networks of content items. The approach adopted here is closely connected to the semantic map method, which has recently shifted its focus from the study of the polysemic patterns of grammatical morphemes (in this respect, see, e.g., Haspelmath, 2003) to the study of lexical items (e.g., François, 2008, Perrin, 2010, Wälchli and Cysouw 2012, and Georgakopoulos et al., 2016). As such, our paper has also a methodological bearing on the semantic map model, both because of its focus on content words and on diachrony (see van der Auwera, 2008; Narrog, 2010; Luraghi, 2014; Juvonen and Koptjevskaja-Tamm, 2016). All things considered, this diachronic take on the polysemic networks of lexemes belonging to a particular semantic domain offers a new perspective on dealing with the question of the directionality of meaning change.
International Conference "Decoding Signs of Identity: Egyptian Workmen’s Marks in Archaeological,... more International Conference "Decoding Signs of Identity: Egyptian Workmen’s Marks in Archaeological, Historical, Comparative and Theoretical Perspective", Leiden University, 13-15 December 2013.
The so-called Nobles’ tombs in the Theban Necropolis of the 18th Dynasty do not seem to have preserved identity marks comparable to those encountered in other Ancient Egyptian monumental sites. They nevertheless provide a vast amount of drawn or written pieces of information, meant to be used in the making of those decorated monuments. These indications range from written notes (typically hieratic ones) to purely iconic representations, like sketches or designs. Most of them were probably intended as self-help notes, i.e. as a support for one’s own work. Others, however, are certainly to be related to communications between different actors in the artistic production. The paper presented here will focus especially on pictographic marks discovered in TT 96A (Sennefer, governor of Thebes under Amenhotep II) that suggest a paralinguistic use of hieroglyphic signs as a mean of communication between artists in the decoration process of the monument.
In this talk, we present a critical view of subjectification and grammaticalization. We develop t... more In this talk, we present a critical view of subjectification and grammaticalization. We develop the notion of speaker-oriented inference (as opposed to subject-oriented inference), arguing that the former leads to the relaxation of selectional restrictions of a construction, and to a rise in text frequency. A case study from Ancient Egyptian is discussed.
En nous appuyant sur un historique de la chaire d’égyptologie à l’ULg (depuis sa création en 1902... more En nous appuyant sur un historique de la chaire d’égyptologie à l’ULg (depuis sa création en 1902), nous montrerons comment Ramsès est venu s’inscrire au cœur des projets de recherche du service d’égyptologie à partir de 2006. La présentation s’attachera ensuite à en présenter les derniers développements et à illustrer le caractère novateur de ce projet, tant du point de vue de l’égyptologie et de la linguistique de corpus, que du point de vue — plus large — des humanités numériques. Nous décrirons enfin le réseau de recherche européen dont il participe aujourd’hui, impliquant des collaborations suivies avec différents projets d’ampleur.
Given a worldwide preference for suffixes over prefixes, why do some languages nonetheless have a... more Given a worldwide preference for suffixes over prefixes, why do some languages nonetheless have a macro-preference for prefixes? In this talk, we show that Ancient Egyptian-Coptic (Afroasiatic) shows a long-term diachronic macro-change from mixed suffixing-prefixing to an overwhel¬ming preference for prefixing. We argue that each of the micro-changes implicated in this macro-change are better understood in terms of regular changes at the level of individual constructions, via, e.g., grammaticalization, rather than in terms of a broad Sapirian ‘drift.’ Crucially, it is the particular constellation of structural features of the language at a particular moment in time, together with regular mechanisms of language change, that give rise to the cross-linguistically unusual ‘macro-preference’ of the language.
Call for Papers for a workshop in the framework of the Marie Curie BeIPD Cofund postdoctoral pro... more Call for Papers
for a workshop in the framework of the Marie Curie BeIPD Cofund postdoctoral project “Le Diasema: Lexical Diachronic Semantic Maps: Representing and explaining meaning extension”.
- Deadline for abstract submission: February 15, 2018
- Applicants notified of abstract acceptance: February 25th, 2018
- Type of presentation: Please note that only poster presentations will be accepted
- Organizers: Georgakopoulos, Thanasis (University of Liège); Polis, Stéphane (University of Liège/ F.R.S.-FNRS)
- URL: http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/lediasema/workshop/
- Venue: Liège, Belgium, University of Liège, 27th-28th of June 2018
- Host Institute: The Department of Classical and Oriental Studies of the University of Liège (in collaboration with the research center in linguistics)
- No registration fee is required
Potential participants are requested to send an abstract (of up to 300 words, exclusive of references) by February 15, to the following address: athanasios.georgakopoulos@uliege.be (Thanasis Georgakopoulos)
Invited speakers (alphabetically):
William Croft (University of New Mexico)
Alexandre François (Lacito – CNRS)
Volker Gast (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Eitan Grossman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm University)
Johann Mattis List (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena)
Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia)
Andrej Malchukov (Johannes Gutenberg-University)
Tatiana Nikitina (Inalco – UMR 8135 CNRS)
Loic-Michel Perrin (Inalco – CNRS)
Ekaterina Rakhilina & Daria Ryzhova (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Martine Vanhove (Inalco – UMR 8135 CNRS)
Anna Zalizniak (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Discussant: Johan Van der Auwera (University of Antwerp)
Linguistic Typology, 2020
This paper investigates universal and areal structures in the lexicon as manifested by colexifica... more This paper investigates universal and areal structures in the lexicon as manifested by colexification patterns in the semantic domains of perception and cognition, based on data from both small and large datasets. Using several methods, including weighted semantic maps, formal concept lattices, correlation analysis, and dimensionality reduction, we identify colexification patterns in the domains in question and evaluate the extent to which these patterns are specific to particular areas. This paper contributes to the methodology of investigating areal patterns in the lexicon, and identifies a number of cross-linguistic regularities and of area-specific properties in the structuring of lexicons.
Language and Linguistics Compass, Feb 19, 2018
The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been intensively used... more The semantic map model is relatively new in linguistic research, but it has been intensively used during the past three decades for studying both cross-linguistic and language-specific questions. The goal of the present contribution is to give a comprehensive overview of the model. After introducing the different types of semantic maps, we present the steps involved for building the maps and discuss in more detail the different types of maps and their respective advantages and disadvantages, focusing on the kinds of linguistic generalizations captured. Finally, we provide a thorough survey of the literature on the topic and we sketch future avenues for research in the field.
in E. Grossmann et al. (eds), On Forms and Functions (Lingua Aegypta Studia Monographica 15). Hamburg: Widmaier, 2014, p. 201-231
Band 15 offprint from copies of this volume may be ordered from the publisher (orders@widmaier-ve... more Band 15 offprint from copies of this volume may be ordered from the publisher (orders@widmaier-verlag.de) and the North American distributor Eisenbrauns (www.eisenbrauns.com)
Resumo: Esta tradução comentada tem como objetivo apresentar ao linguista, em especial ao estudio... more Resumo: Esta tradução comentada tem como objetivo apresentar ao linguista, em especial ao estudioso das teorias enunciativas, a potencialidade da discussão e inserção do conceito de gesto na descrição e teoria linguística. O autor, Sémir Badir, adota uma perspectiva 'ampliada', integrando o gesto a uma visão retórica de longa tradição bem como a conceitos contemporâneos da pragmática, como ato de linguagem, e da linguística textual, como sequência textual. Mostra ainda que o gesto está na interface com as figuras de pensamento e qualquer teorização sobre ele deve integrar essa discussão para além de uma dimensão estilística ou estética, atingindo um patamar da própria natureza da linguagem. Apresentamos inicialmente uma discussão das fontes citadas pelo autor e, em seguida, passamos à tradução propriamente dita. Palavras-chave: gesto; enunciação; retórica ;epistemologia da linguística Abstract: This commented translation aims to present to the linguist, especially to the linguist of enunciative theories, the potential of the discussion and insertion of the concept of gesture in the linguistic description and theory. The author, Sémir Badir, adopts an 'expanded' perspective, integrating the gesture with a rhetorical vision of long tradition as well as with contemporary concepts of pragmatics, as an act of language, and of textual linguistics, as a textual sequence. It also shows that the gesture is at the interface with the figures of thought and any theorization about it must integrate this discussion beyond a stylistic or aesthetic dimension, reaching a level of the very nature of language. We initially present a discussion of the sources cited by the author and then move on to the translation itself. Introdução e Tradução comentada Sémir Badir, conhecido especialista na obra de Hjelmslev, lança mão nesse artigo de algumas referências pouco usuais em suas reflexões : ainda que a Retórica esteja presente em outras obras como o artigo « Benveniste seria hoje um linguista da enunciação ? (tradução 1 Agradecemos a autorização da presente Tradução ao Prof. Sémir Badir. O original foi publicado como capítulo do livro :BIGLARI, A. SALVAN, G.(dir.) Figures en discours. Academia L'Hamarttan, 2017, p. 93-116. Toda a produção bibliográfica do Prof. Badir está disponível em: https
Benveniste serait-il aujourd‟hui un linguiste de l‟énonciation ?, 2020
RESUMO: Esta tradução v tem como objetivo oferecer ao leitor brasileiro um texto que problematiza... more RESUMO: Esta tradução v tem como objetivo oferecer ao leitor brasileiro um texto que problematiza o conceito de "enunciação" em sua dupla relação com o pensamento de Émile Benveniste e com o pensamento de linguistas contemporâneos. Trata-se de uma avaliação retrospectiva que leva em conta os cinquenta anos de difusão do pensamento do linguista. Badir e coautores debruçam-se sobre o desgaste que a terminologia benvenistiana sofreu nesse período. Considerando o pequeno número de traduções em língua portuguesa de textos sobre epistemologia da linguística, acreditamos que este trabalho colabore para difundir a construção da história das ideias linguísticas. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Teoria da Enunciação; Benveniste; História das ideias linguísticas.
by Hany Rashwan, Rita Lucarelli, Beatrice De Faveri, Walid Elsayed, Marina Sartori, Andrea Pasqui, Nicky van de Beek, Panagiotis Kousoulis, Guilherme Borges Pires, Nikolaos Lazaridis, Jordan Miller, Barbara Richter, Stéphane Polis, Philipp Seyr, Federica Pancin, Francesca Iannarilli, Alvarez Christelle, Rune Nyord, Edyta Kopp, Silvia Zago, and Ludwig Morenz
The conference is hosted by the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) and the Department of Middle Easte... more The conference is hosted by the Institute of Archaeology (UCL) and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley).
With special thanks to the conference team: Rachel Barnas (University of California, Berkeley), Beatrice De Faveri (University of California, Berkeley), Walid Elsayed (Sohag University), Maysa Kassem (Fayum University), Jason Silvestri (University of California, Berkeley).
The conference will be live-streamed on Thursday18, Friday 19 and Saturday 20, November 2021