Table of Contents

Preface

1. Writing and Phonology

2. Nouns and Adjectives

3. Pronouns

4. Numbers and Particles

5. Prepositions and Adverbs

6. Nominal and Adjectival Sentences

7. Verbs

8. The Bipartite Construction

9. The Tripartite Construction

10. Dependent Forms

11.Second Tenses

12.Complex Sentences

Answers to the Exercises

Chrestomathy

Dictionary

Bibliography

Abbreviations and References

Index

About the Author

James P. Allen is Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. His research focuses on ancient Egyptian religion and on the grammar and literature of the ancient Egyptian language. He has served as Curator of Ancient Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as President of the International Association of Egyptologists and is the author of A Grammar of the Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, vol. 1: Unis, also published by Eisenbrauns.