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Abstract
This study is a grammatical study about “The Relative Forms in Late Egyptian”. They are adjectival verbal form that has the same functional role of the relative clause, they both describe the antecedent, whereas the relative clause describes the antecedent using an adverbial or nominal clause, the relative form describes the antecedent using a verbal form, The Relative form’s origin is passive participle because of the similarity between them in the morphology and uses.
Late Relative forms developed from perfect “sDm.n=f” form in Earlier Egyptian which has the ending that refer to the gender and number of the antecedent, when it is a masculine singular, there is no specific ending, if it is masculine plural, the ending will be “w”, when it is feminine whether singular or plural, the ending will be “t”, and the negation occurred by the verb “tm”. Classical relative form survived side by side with Late relative form in the texts. In Late Egyptian, relative form become “i.sDm=f” after losing the suffix conjunction “n” and introduced by the prosthetic yod “i” , and it is always in a Masc. Sing. form whatever the gender and the number of the antecedent, the antecedent must be defined by either proper noun, definite article, demonstrative, possessive adjective, suffix pronoun or “nb”.
There is new construction of relative form which named “Periphrased relative form”, periphrasing would be with verbs of more three consonants, but they are surely some exceptions. There are perfective and perfect “sDm.n=f” form to express perfect tense in Middle Egyptian. In Late Egyptian, relative form is always in past tense including periphrased RF, there are some exceptions represented in the survived middle imperfective and prospective in Late Egyptian texts, and the periphrased RFs with verbs of three radicals or less than that, but they are rare. Relative form functions as attribute or as noun. When relative form is used as a complex noun, it can be interchange with defined nouns or bare nouns, it is occurred as object to imperative, preposition, various verbal forms, subject to another predicate, second part in cleft sentence, and as a second part in a genitive construction, it can be also used to express “where- conjunction”, it can express causative by using the construction “i.di sdm.f; sdm.tw.f”. In final of thesis, there are some common uses of Classical relative form and common Late relative forms in Late Egyptian texts.
Key Words:
Relative Forms- Antecedent- Prosthetic yod- Ending- Tense- Use- Late Egyptian