著者

塚本 明廣

出版者

学術雑誌目次速報データベース由来

雑誌

オリエント (ISSN:00305219)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.37, no.1, pp.1-16, 1994

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The words bridging the two lines in the Edwin Smith papyrus are not split arbitrarily. They do, however, follow several rules:<br>(1) More than one consecutive determinatives are never divided into two lines. The combinations are treated as inseparable single strings. And the determinatives, single or combined, have a tendancy to shift to the head of the next line.<br>(2) The grammatical morphs (xr, jn, n) are never separated from pronominal suffixes. The combined string forms a indivisible unit. And they are placed at the head of the next line.<br>(3) The grammatical morphs (xr, jn) written alphabetically are never split, while lexical morphs spelled phonetically can be split freely.<br>These restrictions and other tendancies of spelling are tested and confirmed by other literary works in hieratic script with limited exceptions.<br>Considering these split words and words written within lines, and the fact that determinatives of lexemes vary freely, ancient Egyptian scribes must have already identified linguistic units. These correspond nearly to words, grammatical morphemes, and determinatives in contrast to phonogrames in modern linguists' terminology.