Transformed Afroasiatic N-stems Characterize Egyptian through Coptic: Seven Takeaways from the New Paradigm
The following is adapted from a longer article draft that has been undergoing peer review since August 2023, and which is available by request. Research beginning to think through this new paradigm was presented at the Egyptological Conference in Copenhagen and at a Symposium of the American Research Center in Egypt - Missouri Chapter. Some related research can also be found in the most recent issue of the Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (Mihalyfy 2022-2023a and Mihalyfy 2022-2023b). . . . The standard scholarly narrative (e.g. Loprieno 1995: 54, 72-73) says that Afroasiatic N-stems were hardly if ever productive in Egyptian and pretty much died off, after some minor prominence on the earlier side of the language Resembling forms in other Afroasiatic languages and thus presumably derived from some common inheritance (e.g. Lieberman 1986, 592-604), the most famous Egyptian examples strikingly combine an N-stem prefix with reduplication in “detransitive