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Rylands IX, the famous petition of Peteesi written in the ninth or tenth year of Darius I (514 or 513 B.C.), have not failed to observe that there are certain sentences and clauses in which the object of a verb in the infinitive is mediated by the preposition n or n-im while in other sentences and clauses the same verb in the infinitive, imperative or sdm.f, takes its object directly. This has been interpreted as the sporadic beginnings of a construction (the indirect object) which only in the Roman period attained wide use, though not to the extent which Coptic exhibits.2 The rules for the latter were first formulated by P. Jernstedt.3 They are that in the tenses called durative, that is the First and Second Present, the Imperfect, the Circumstantial, and the Present Relative, the infinitive never uses a pronominal form, and any definite object or personal pronoun or noun with the indefinite article must be introduced by ii/Z or .iVto-after the absolute infinitive. Nouns without article, indefinite and interrogative pronouns are preceded by the construct infinitive. When reading Rylands IX in class recently it occurred to me that it might be instructive to examine all instances of
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- Author
- Richard A. Parker
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1961
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)