Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Propaedeutics -- Early encounters: Egyptian-Coptic studies and comparative linguistics in the century from Schlegel to Finck -- The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture -- A grammatical overview of Egyptian and Coptic -- The Leipzig-Jerusalem Transliteration of Coptic -- Part II: Studies -- Conditionals in Late Egyptian -- A typological look at Egyptian *d > ʕ -- No case before the verb, obligatory case after the verb in Coptic -- How typology can inform philology: quotative j(n) in Earlier Egyptian -- The three adnominal possessive constructions in Egyptian-Coptic: Three degrees of grammaticalization -- Egyptian non-selective interrogative pronominals: history and typology -- Typological remodeling in Egyptian language history: salience, source and conjunction -- Towards a typology of poetic rhyme -- The Old and Early Middle Egyptian Stative -- A rare change: the degrammaticalization of an inflectional passive marker into an impersonal subject pronoun in Earlier Egyptian -- The oblique expression of the object in Ancient Egyptian -- Index of authors -- Index of languages -- General index