Standard Theory (Egyptology)
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In Egyptology, the Standard Theory or Polotskyan Theory, sometimes abbreviated ST, is an approach to the verbal syntax of the Egyptian language originally developed by Hans Jakob Polotsky in which Egyptian verb forms are regarded as variously adjectival, substantival, or adverbial,[1] with the possibility of ‘transposing’ any given verb phrase into any of these three classes.[2][3] This analysis rests on the basis of systematically applying substitutional rules for syntactic nodes, whereby certain verb phrases are seen to be syntactically converted into noun phrases or adverb phrases because of the possibility of substituting such phrases in place of the verb phrase.[3] This approach was widely adopted in the mid-20th century but eventually fell out of favor starting in the 1980s.[3][4]