Sami Uljas
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Archaeology and Ancient History and Conservation; Egyptology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 20 79
- E-mail:
- sami.uljas@egyptologi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3H
- Postal address:
- Box 626
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Senior lecturer in Egyptology
Research Interests:
Egyptian-Coptic language and linguistics: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, typology, cross-linguistic comparisons, cognitive and functional aspects of language, methodology and history of Egyptological linguistic research
Coptic philology and literature: hagiographical and martyrological texts; Coptic Bible; codicology; history of Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt
Publications
Recent publications
- The Paris leaves of the martyrdom of St Apa Nile (2024)
- Agreement in Earlier Egyptian (2024)
- The destruction of 'mankind' (2022)
- A note on the Earlier Egyptian direct and indirect genitive (2022)
- Iconicity and semantic-structural mapping in Earlier Egyptian complementation (2021)
All publications
Articles
- The Paris leaves of the martyrdom of St Apa Nile (2024)
- Agreement in Earlier Egyptian (2024)
- The destruction of 'mankind' (2022)
- A note on the Earlier Egyptian direct and indirect genitive (2022)
- Iconicity and semantic-structural mapping in Earlier Egyptian complementation (2021)
- Between the Superpowers (2021)
- The prothetic i- and the Earlier Egyptian sdm-f paradigm(s) (2019)
- Lost Coptic texts from Herbert Thompson papers II: (2019)
- Verbal grammaticalisation clines in Coptic (2019)
- Earlier Egyptian cataphora (2018)
- Words on the Move (2018)
- The Paris Leaves Of The Martyrdom Of Ss Timothy And Martyria (2017)
- Where to stick an adverbial in Earlier Egyptian (2017)
- On adjunct clause positioning in Earlier Egyptian (2016)
- On clitics in Earlier Egyptian (2016)
- Illocution and speaker intent in Coptic (2015)
- What is and what is not. A very brief note on relative adjectives and negations in Earlier Egyptian (2015)
- Lost Coptic Texts from Herbert Thompson Papers I (2015)
- An unattested section of the New Testament in Fayyumic Coptic (2015)
- Various sorts of nothing: a typology of ellipsis in Earlier Egyptian (2014)
- St Orsunuphios and friends: resurrecting a lost Coptic martyrdom (2014)
- Review of Roberto A. Diaz Hernández, Tradition und Innovation in der offiziellen Sprache des Mittleren Reiches (2014)
- Aarteita ullakolla. Kolme kadonnutta koptilaista tekstiä (2014)
- Agreement domains and resumption in Earlier Egyptian (2013)
- Some remarks on a negated Earlier Egyptian nominal sentence and related constructions (2013)
- The Cambridge leaves of the Life of Moses of Abydos (2012)
- On adverbial ante-position and operator scope in Coptic (2012)
- Begging the question. Earlier Egyptian WH-questions and the marking of information structure (2012)
- Review of J. Borghouts 2010, Egyptian. An Introduction to the Writing and Language of the Middle Kingdom (2012)
- A Sahidic leaf of the Gospel of John in Trinity College, Cambridge (2011)
- A fragment of the Life of Moses of Abydos in the British Library (2011)
- The IFAO leaves of the Life of Moses of Abydos (2011)
- Syncretism and the Earlier Egyptian sDm=f (2011)
- Archaeology of language (2010)
- Grammar as a mirror of mind (2010)
- Formally speaking (2010)
- A hitherto unattested section of the Sahidic Old testament (2010)
- A lexicographic note on an Egyptian crocodile spell (2010)
- A leaf of the Coptic Martyrdom of Ptolemy in Cambridge (2010)
- Adverbial sentence WH-questions in Earlier Egyptian (2009)
- The forms of the Coptic 2nd person feminine singular pronouns (2009)
- A note on pronominal resumption in Earlier Egyptian relative clauses (2009)
- Methodological remarks on defining 'verb form' in Earlier Egyptian (2008)
- Review of Winand, J. 2006 Temps et aspect en Égyptien. Une approche sémantique (2007)
- Why (not) leave it 'virtual'? (2007)
- The Earlier Egyptian adjective reconsidered (2007)
Books
- Martyrs and Archangels (2019)
- Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian (2017)
- Fuzzy Boundaries (2015)
- Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Egyptian Grammar (Crossroads IV), Basel, March 19-22, 2009 (2009)
- The Modal System of Earlier Egyptian Complement Clauses (2007)
Chapters
- Grammar (2020)
- To see an invisible form: paradigms, parallels, and practises once again (2016)
- A preliminary report of the edition project 'Martyrs and Archangels: Five Coptic Texts in the Pierpont Morgan Library' (2016)
- 'He almost heard': a case study of diachronic reanalysis in Coptic syntax (2016)
- The results are unclear. (2015)
- On Earlier Egyptian control constructions (2014)
- Linguistic consciousness (2013)
Conferences
