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On the Structure of the Expressions Denoting Existence and Non-Existence in MiddleEgyptianAuthor(s): T. W. ThackerSource: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 31-37Published by: Egypt Exploration SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3855204.
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ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE EXPRESSIONS
DENOTING EXISTENCE
AND
NON-EXISTENCE
IN
MIDDLE
EGYPTIAN
By
T.
W.
THACKER
I.
qS~
and
S A
f-fP
without
conception,
without
birth'
(Adm.
5,
I4).
Perhaps
the
n
of
the
construc-
tion
n
sdmtf
'he
has/had
not
(yet)
heard' is best
explained
in this
way
i.e. as
meaning
'there
is/was
not
the fact that he
has/had
heard', or,
when
it
occurs
after
a main
clause,
as
it
normally
does,
'there not
being
the fact
that he
has/had
heard'.2
Gardiner,
op.
cit.,
307,
I.
2
Cf.
ibid.,
405
and
Gunn,
op.
cit.,
I74
ff.
The
sdmtf
form is
perhaps
derived
from a relative form
which
bears
the same relation
to the Perfective
sdmf
form as
the
Imperfective
relative
form bears to the
Imperfective
gdm-f
orm. So far as I know
the existence of such a relative form has not been
recognized
by
the
grammarians,
but
I have not
yet
seen M. Clere's
paper
on a new relative form which he read
at the
Congress
of
Orientalists
in Paris
in
July I948.
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