中エジプト語 sḏm pw ir.n=f 構文に対する新たなアプローチ

抄録

In Middle Egyptian grammar, the sḏm pw ir.n=f-construction (its passive form is sḏm pw iry) is a well-known narrative construction. Until now this construction has been regarded as a bipartite A pw or a tripartite A pw B nominal sentence. The purpose of this paper is to try a new approach to the sḏm pw ir.n=f-construction; it investigates the possibility of grouping this construction with the Spw-constructions, which were previously discussed in this Bulletin (Vol.49 No.1).
 The following is a summary of the main conclusions in this paper.
(1) The sḏm pw ir.n=f-construction is an Spw-construction into which a (monopartite nominal) sentence sḏm ir.n=f/iry is embedded.
(2) The semantic functions of the sḏm pw ir.n=f-construction correspond to two of the subdivisions which the semantic functions of the Spw-constructions show.
i) The speaker/writer (S/W) presents to the hearer/reader (H/R) a state of affairs described by the embedded sentence (Q); Q is related to the preceding context (P).
ex. ḫr m-ḫt spr=f r ẖnw `ḳ pw ir.n s3-nswt Ḥr-dd=f r smit (Westc. 8 6-7)
Now when he arrived at the royal Residence (P), the king's son Hordedef entered to report (Q).
ii) S/W presents Q to H/R; Q is not related to a previous P.
ex. The beginning of a new episode:
`ḥ` p[w] ir.n s3-nswt Ḥr-dd=f r mdt (Westc. 6 22-23)
(Now) the king's son Hordedef stood up to speak (Q).
(3) The sḏm pw ir.n=f-construction is in complementar ydistribution with the “perfect” Spw-constructions (ink pw sḏm.n=i/h3.kwi, NP pw sḏm.n=f, sḏm.n=f pw, etc.) with respect to the combination patterns of the kinds of verbs (transitive verbs, verbs of motion, or other intransitive verbs) and the kinds of agents (1st personal pronoun, 3rd personal/indefinite pro-nouns, or noun phrases) that it can take.