On Resystematizing Major Aspects of the Egyptian Verb: A Dialogue with the Recent Work of Marwan Kilani
The following consolidates interrelated aspects of both past work and some ongoing research that will be submitted for peer review. . . . As can happen in scholarship, research projects can converge and produce similar ideas. To some extent, this has occurred with recent work attempting to resystematize major aspects of the Egyptian verb, in particular heightened recognition of a verbal noun found in Coptic as C 1 C 2 VC 3 / C 1 C 2 VC 2 (e.g. ⲞⲨⲂⲀϢ “white” or ⲔⲘⲞⲘ “black”). On the one hand, there stands the work of Marwan Kilani (2025; 2026b; 2026c; 2026d), which arose from a “four-year… project on Egyptian-Coptic linguistics” that “[i]nitially focused on dialectal variation in Late Egyptian” but ended up producing “a new model of Proto-Coptic” (2026a). On the other hand, there stands my own work (Mihalyfy 2025a-b). There, what began as recognition of more-widespread survival of Afroasiatic N-stems in Egyptian than previously thought (Mihalyfy 2022a-b; 2022-23; 2024b...