Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II
Orthography and Phonology
Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, São Paulo, 10–13 March 2004
University of Oslo & University of Amsterdam / University of São Paulo
This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of the European colonial enterprises along the period 1550–1850, described dozens of autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks to their endeavours. The twelve papers joint in the present volume — which dedicated special attention to the orthographical and phonological dimension of their work — provide a comprehensive picture of the descriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre, notably: the difficulties faced before the less familiar features of these languages, such as vowel quantity, accentuation, tonality, nasalization, glottalization, ‘gutturalization’; the building of (re)definitions and the creation of a new metalanguage, like ‘saltillo’, ‘guturaciones’, etc.; The book elucidates the creativity and innovations proposed by individual missionaries and the instructive and pedagogical dimension of their work.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 109]
2005.
vi, 292 pp.
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Table of Contents
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Introduction and Acknowledgements
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1
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Part I. New Spain/ Nueva España
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Phonological Description in New Spain
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3
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Tarascan Orthography in the 16th Century: The Franciscan Sources of Inspiration and their Analysis
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65
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La representación escritural del maya de Yucatán desde la época prehispánica hasta la colonia: proyecciones hacia el siglo XXI
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89
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Traducción, préstamos y teoría del lenguaje: La práctica transcultural de los lingüistas misioneros en el México del siglo XVI
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107
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Part II. South America/ América del Sur
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Fonología y ortografía de las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur a la luz de los primeros misioneros gramáticos
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137
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How Was Mochica Being Pronounced?
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171
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Cholón Sounds Reconstructed: A symbol analysis
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181
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Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil: A criterion for evaluation
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191
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Part III. Asia
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The Adaptation of the European Polyglot Dictionary of Calepino in Japan: Dictionarium Latino Lusitanicum, ac Iaponicum (1595)
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205
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Las ligaturas en las gramáticas misioneras filipinas del siglo XVIII
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225
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Análisis del Arte de la lengua Pangasinán (1690) de Fray Andrés López
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247
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Phonetic Spellings in Historical Context vs Idiolect: Two Japanese grammars by João Rodriguez Tçûzu and his holograph documents
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273
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Addresses of Contributors / Direcciones de autores
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281
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Index of Biographical Names / Índice de nombres biográficos
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283
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Index of Grammatical (and linguistic) Terms/Índice de términos gramaticales (y lingüísticos
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287
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Quotes
“Los diferentes autores que contribuyen dos volúmenes [SiHoLS 106 & 109] muestran que la lingüística misionera no sólo es original e innovadora, sino que puede ser de utilidad para futuros estudios tipológicos y comparativos.”
Claudia Parodi, University of California, Los Angeles, in Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana, Vol. VI, N° 2 (12) - 2008
“[...] abre nuevos horizontes a la investigación, en tanto que plantea cuestiones que merecen ser más estudiadas. Se trata, en definitiva, de un volumen que pone nuevamente de manifiesto la vitalidad de este campo de los estudios historiográficos.”
Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres,
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, in Historiographia Linguistica Vol. 33:3 (2006)
“Os trabalhos reunidos na obra proporcionam uma boa visão da área da Historiografia da Lingüística Missionária, campo que busca reconstruir e mapear as diferentes soluções descritivas engendradas no contexto da gramaticização de línguas não-européias que se tornaram conhecidas a partir da Renascença. Esse contexto, em função das dificuldades que impôs aos descritores, foi especialmente propício à criatividade e à inovação, e por isso merece ser investigado.”
Luciana Gimenes, UNICID, São Paulo, Brazil, in Revista do GEL, Vol. 4, 2007
Subjects
Benjamins Subject classification
Linguistics
BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005055891