Abstract
Abstract This study, more suggestive than conclusive, presents, illustrates and briefly discusses cases of “unorthodox” syntax in some dialects of Coptic, including Shenoutean Sahidic: (Ia) The Stative form as adjunct and/or adnexal expansion, where we rather expect the circumstantial Present with Stative rheme. This recalls the “synthetic” Stative of Old and Middle Egyptian. (Ib) The Stative in what seems deverbal adjective roles. (II) The element тє, well-established as a non-referential copular constituent in certain Nominal Sentence patterns; also te in situational-anaphoric or thetic roles. Some of these constructions were first observed by W. E. Crum in his early editions, especially of Theban and Fayyumic sources.
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