Sami Uljas
Phone: 018-471 2079
Senior lecturer in Egyptology
I graduated with a BA in Egyptology, MA in archaeology, and a PhD in Egyptology from Liverpool University, where I gained my first experience in teaching the subject. Afterwards I took up a Post-doctoral Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and besides teaching at Cambridge University, I worked as a teacher and researcher in Egyptology also at the universities of Basel and Copenhagen.
I arrived in Uppsala as a Senior Lecturer in late 2012 and have been teaching and doing research here since then. I teach modules on Egyptian language and texts (Old-, Middle- and Late Egyptian and Coptic) and on political and cultural history as well as supervise Bachelor, Masters, and doctoral students in Egyptology. I hold a personal docentship at Helsinki University, where I teach occasionally and supervise Masters and PhD students. I also act as an external examiner for Copenhagen University.
My research focuses primarily on Egyptian-Coptic linguistics and philology. I carry out investigation on the morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology, as well as cognitive and functional aspects of all the historical stages of the Egyptian language. I am also interested in the study of diachrony, methodology, and the history of Egyptological linguistic research. My more specifically philological work focuses on editing and publishing Coptic literary manuscripts (particularly hagiographic, martyrological, and Biblical texts) as well as on the study of what these texts reveal of the history of Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt and of early Christianity.
Publications
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The so-called prothetic i- in Earlier Egyptian III: The Participles
Part of In the House of Heqanakht, p. 387-399, 2023.
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The destruction of 'mankind'
Part of Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, p. 274-280, 2022.
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Between the Superpowers: Some Remarks on the Role of Demons in Early Coptic Christianity
Part of Vigiliae christianae (Print), p. 237-252, 2021.
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Iconicity and semantic-structural mapping in Earlier Egyptian complementation
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 215-238, 2021.
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Eväkkäät eväät. Kommentteja kalasta ja muinaisen Egyptin sosiaalihistoriasta
Part of Kirjuri, p. 10-16, 2020.
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Grammar
Part of The Oxford Handbook of Egyptology, p. 912-929, 2020.
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The so-called prothetic i- and the sdm-f paradigms II: The "nominal" sdm-f and a reappraisal
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 259-267, 2020.
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Why not say it straight?: On the pragmatics of indirect speech in Coptic
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 269-284, 2020.
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Martyrs and Archangels: Coptic Literary Texts from the Pierpont Morgan Library
Mohr Siebeck, 2019.
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The prothetic i- and the Earlier Egyptian sdm-f paradigm(s)
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 215-225, 2019.
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Verbal grammaticalisation clines in Coptic
Part of Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, p. 82-99, 2019.
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Earlier Egyptian cataphora
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 203-218, 2018.
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Words on the Move: Some observations on the lexicalisation of kinesis in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Göttinger Miszellen, p. 129-137, 2018.
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Non-Verbal Predication in Ancient Egyptian
Mouton de Gruyter, 2017.
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The Paris Leaves Of The Martyrdom Of Ss Timothy And Martyria
Part of Le Muséon, p. 255-277, 2017.
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Where to stick an adverbial in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 391-414, 2017.
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A preliminary report of the edition project 'Martyrs and Archangels: Five Coptic Texts in the Pierpont Morgan Library'
Part of Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times, p. 1147-1152, 2016.
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'He almost heard': a case study of diachronic reanalysis in Coptic syntax
Part of Aere Perennius. Mélanges égyptologiques en l'honneur de Pascal Vernus, p. 465-492, 2016.
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On adjunct clause positioning in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Revue d'égyptologie, p. 179-197, 2016.
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On clitics in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 111-149, 2016.
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To see an invisible form: paradigms, parallels, and practises once again
Part of Coping with Obscurity: The Brown Workshop on Earlier Egyptian Grammar, p. 98-107, 2016.
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An unattested section of the New Testament in Fayyumic Coptic
Part of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, p. 68-72, 2015.
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Vidmaier Verlag, 2015.
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Illocution and speaker intent in Coptic: the case of the 'Autofocal' Second Tenses
Part of Zeitschrift für Ägyptischen Sprache und Altertumskunde, p. 205-216, 2015.
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Lost Coptic Texts from Herbert Thompson Papers I: 'The Acts of Stephen'
Part of Journal of Coptic Studies, p. 165-213, 2015.
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The results are unclear.: A note on clauses of result in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Fuzzy Boundaries, p. 277-287, 2015.
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What is and what is not. A very brief note on relative adjectives and negations in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 283-288, 2015.
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Aarteita ullakolla. Kolme kadonnutta koptilaista tekstiä
Part of Kirjuri, p. 1-6, 2014.
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On Earlier Egyptian control constructions
Part of On Forms and Functions, p. 233-256, 2014.
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Review of Roberto A. Diaz Hernández, Tradition und Innovation in der offiziellen Sprache des Mittleren Reiches
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 343-348, 2014.
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St Orsunuphios and friends: resurrecting a lost Coptic martyrdom
Part of Göttinger Miszellen, p. 49-54, 2014.
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Various sorts of nothing: a typology of ellipsis in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 215-230, 2014.
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A traitor or a thief? Teti son of Minhetep's crime once again
Part of Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, p. 357-364, 2013.
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Agreement domains and resumption in Earlier Egyptian
Part of Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, p. 78-83, 2013.
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Linguistic consciousness
Part of UCLA Encyclopaedia of Egyptology, 2013.
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Some remarks on a negated Earlier Egyptian nominal sentence and related constructions
Part of Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, p. 241-252, 2013.
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Begging the question. Earlier Egyptian WH-questions and the marking of information structure
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 253-266, 2012.
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On adverbial ante-position and operator scope in Coptic
Part of Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, p. 93-102, 2012.
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Review of J. Borghouts 2010, Egyptian. An Introduction to the Writing and Language of the Middle Kingdom
Part of Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, p. 336-341, 2012.
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The Cambridge leaves of the Life of Moses of Abydos
Part of Le Museon, p. 1-33, 2012.
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A fragment of the Life of Moses of Abydos in the British Library
Part of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, p. 117-122, 2011.
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A Sahidic leaf of the Gospel of John in Trinity College, Cambridge
Part of Göttinger Miszellen, p. 93-100, 2011.
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Syncretism and the Earlier Egyptian sDm=f: Speculations on morphological interconnections across paradigms
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 155-174, 2011.
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The IFAO leaves of the Life of Moses of Abydos
Part of Orientalia, p. 373-422, 2011.
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A hitherto unattested section of the Sahidic Old testament
Part of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, p. 63-65, 2010.
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A leaf of the Coptic Martyrdom of Ptolemy in Cambridge
Part of Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, p. 179-184, 2010.
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A lexicographic note on an Egyptian crocodile spell
Part of Göttinger Miszellen, p. 101-107, 2010.
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Archaeology of language: A case study from Middle Kingdom/Second Internediate Period Egypt and Nubia
Part of Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, p. 373-382, 2010.
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Formally speaking: Observations on a recent theory of the Earlier Egyptian sDm.n=f
Part of Lingua Aegyptia, p. 253-261, 2010.