Coptic future tenses: syntactical studies in Sahidic

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Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Future III Conjugation 2.1. The Etymology of Future III 2.2. The Form of Future III 2.3. The Meaning of Future III 3. Final Clauses in Greek and Coptic 3.1. The Use of Final Particles in Greek 3.2. Various Types of Coptic Final Clauses 4. Future III in Final Clauses with jeka(a)s 4.1. Greek Constructions Lying Behind jeka(a)s 4.2. The Use of Final Clauses with jeka(a)s and Future III 4.3. Elements Between jeka(a)s and the Verbal Auxiliary 4.4. Jeka(a)s and the Conjunctive Tense 5. Future III in Final Clauses with je 5.1. Greek Constructions Lying Behind je 5.2. The Use of Final Clauses with je and Future III 5.3. Je and jeka(a)a in Contrasting and Parallel Clauses 5.4. Summary and Conclusion 6. Future III in Non-final Relationships 6.1. Commands 6.2. Prohibitions 6.3. Promises and Predictions 6.4. Wishes 7. The Future I Conjugation 7.1. The Etymology of Future I 7.2. The Form of Future I 7.3. The Meaning of Future I 8. Some Observations on the Construction of Sentences with Future I 8.1. The Translation of Future I from the Greek Verb 8.2. Future I Compounded with the Causative Infinitive 8.3. Future I with the Indefinite Actor Expression 9. Syntactical Aspects of Future I 9.1. Interrogative Sentences 9.2. Statements of Progressive Action 9.3. Future I as a True Future Tense 10. Conditional Sentences: Future I and Future III 10.1. Determined Conditions 10.2. Future and General Conditions 11. The Relative Future Tense Construction 11.1. Relative Future Rendered from the Greek Participle 11.2. Conditional Relative Clauses 11.3. Interrogative Sentences 11.4. Negation of Relative Future Clauses with Undefined Antecedent 11.5. Local Clauses 11.6. Other Uses of Relative Future 12. Miscellaneous Verbal Constructions Utilized to Express Future Action 12.1. The Šafsōtm Tense 12.2. The Conditional Conjugation 12.3. The Perfect Tense Used as Future Perfect 12.4. Greek μέλλω 13. Summary and Conclusions Appendix A: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future I in the Coptic New Testament Appendix B: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Relative Future in the Coptic New Testament Appendix C: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future III in the Coptic New Testament Appendix D: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future II in the Coptic New Testament Appendix E: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Circumstantial Future in the Coptic New Testament Appendix F: Tabulation of the Occurrences of Future Imperfect in the Coptic New Testament Bibliography Index of Passages