Future at Issue

Tense, Mood and Aspect in Middle Egyptian

by Pascal Vernus

Book cover: Future at Issue

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Yale Egyptological Studies

Series volume number: 4

Language: English

Paperback (Out of print)

(December 1990)

ISBN: 9780912532219

Price: $35.00

Out of stock

This is a technical study of Middle Egyptian grammar aimed at enhancing our understanding of tense, mood and aspect; a difficult area of research because, as the author notes, `we have no informants, since the discovered mummies have so far stubbornly refused to speak and are not expected to change their minds in the future’.

  • By (author) Pascal Vernus