Two Rare Constructions of the Third Future in Late Egyptian: The So-called Analogue Third Future

The paper highlights two rare constructions of the Third Future in Late Egyptian. These rare constructions are iw.f + prepositional phrase / iri N + prepositional phrase and iw.f+ Statve / iri N+ Stative. The Egyptian scribe interchanged the so-called third future with one of these rare constructions in some special cases such as the oath, wills, and as apodosis of a conditional sentence. The rare construction iw.f + prepositional phrase / iri N + prepositional phrase is found more frequently in the texts than the other construction with stative. Although several studies described the two rare constructions and discussed their meaning and their origin in LE, the implications are still unclear due to the low number of attestations; this paper provides more explicit evidence for both rare constructions in LE. As for the texts from the 19th to 22nd dynasties, the corpus shows that the two rare constructions occurred more often in the non-literary texts than in the literary texts. The attestations of the 21st and 22nd dynasties were much rarer; only one example is found in the texts of the 21st Dynasty, while 5 examples appear in the 22nd Dynasty. Finally, the examples of the 20th Dynasty were more numerous than those of the other dynasties of the corpus, because the two rare constructions are attested more often in the literary and non-literary texts. Keywords: The Third Future, The analogue Third Future, the rare constructions of the Future.