In this volume, Maxim N. Kupreyev explores the intricate stories of Egyptian-Coptic demonstratives and adverbs, personal, relative pronouns and definite articles. Applying the concepts of distance, contrast, and joint attention, the book offers a panorama of competing deictic systems in Old Kingdom Egypt. It singles out dialectal differences and outlines the history of deixis not as a linear development, but as a competition of regional variants that gradually attain normative status. The results of the study reconsider the evolution of Ancient Egyptian, its periodization and its embedding in the Afro-Asiatic linguistic context. Maxim N. Kupreyev , Ph.D. (2020), Freie Universität Berlin, is an Egyptologist and a researcher at the "School of Salamanca" project, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. He has published on topics including Egyptian-Coptic language and digital humanities.