The role of iw in the adverbial sentence in Middle Egyptian

Abstract

The ancient Arab grammarians believed that the adv.phrase on its own couldn’t be considered in Arabic as a predicate in the so-called sentence with adv. Predicate , since it needs to be related to a verb or a verbal paradigm indicative to the absolute or universal being or existence الكون أو الوجود التام. They called this verb “element”. This paper is a comparative study between the function of iw in the adverbial sentence as an independent statement in M.E.and this “element”. Although iw is very common in the M.E. adverbial sentences in which the predicate consists of an adverb propre or a prepositional phrase (preposition +noun or pronoun), Egyptologists still debate about its exact meaning , and no one has yet come up with a full explanation of why Egyptian used it in some cases but not in others .This word is used before a nominal subject or a demonstrative pronoun or with the suffix pronoun where in the last case its presence is obligatory

Keywords

• The role of iw
• iw
• Middle Egyptian