Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III

Morphology and Syntax

Selected papers from the Third and Fourth International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics, Hong Kong/Macau, 12–15 March 2005, Valladolid, 8–11 March 2006

Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Gregory James and Emilio Ridruejo
University of Amsterdam / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / University of Valladolid
This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax. It contains a selection of papers derived from the international conferences on missionary linguistics held in Hong Kong/Macau and Valladolid. As with the previous two volumes (2004, on general issues, and 2005, on orthography and phonology), this volume looks at methodology and descriptive techniques from a historical point of view, offering articles of interest to historiographers of linguistics, typologists, and descriptive linguists. It presents research into languages such as Tarasco (Pur’épecha), Massachusett, Nahuatl, Conivo, Sipibo, Guaraní, Vietnamese, Tamil, Southern Min Chinese dialects, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Tagalog and other Austronesian languages, such as Yapese and Chamorro.
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 111]  2007.  vi, 357 pp.
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Table of Contents

Foreword and acknowledgements
v
Part I: General
Nebrija y los modelos de los misioneros lingüistas del náhuatl
Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres
3
Part II. North America/Nortamérica
"Bones and ribs": The treatment of morphosyntax in John's Eliot's grammar of the Massachusett language (1666)
Pierre Swiggers
41
Part III. New Spain/ Nueva España
La variación lingüística a través de las Artes mexicanas (con especial énfasis en el náhuatl)
José Antonio Flores Farfán
59
Morphology in the 16th-century Artes of Tarascan: The case of the suffix -tsi or -ts
Cristina Monzón
75
Part IV. South America/ América del Sur
Nominal and verbal morphology in the Vocabluario Conivo and in the Diccionario Sipibo
Beatriz Christino
91
Teoría y práctica de la traducción según un manuscrito de Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, S.J. (1651)
Bartomeu Melià S.J.
107
Part V. Asia
The influence of missionary descriptions of far eastern languages on western linguistic thought: The case of Cristoforo Borri, S.J. and Tommaso Campanella
Georg Bossong
123
Morfología de los artículos de los nombres propios en la historiografía hispano-filipina de los siglos XVII y XVIII
Joaquín García-Medall
145
The terminology of declension in early missionary grammars of Tamil
Gregory James
167
"ay sinco lenguas algo diferentes": Chinese vernaculars in early missionary sources
Henning Klöter
191
Padre Joaquim Afonso Gonçalves (1781-1834) and the Arte China (1829): An innovative linguistic approach to teaching Chinese grammar
Joseph A. Levi
211
El problema de la descripción del sujeto o del tópico nominal en las primeras gramáticas filipinas
Emilio Ridruejo
233
La expresión lingüística de la idea de cantidad en algunas gramáticas filipinas
Joaqun Sueiro Justel
251
Agreement asymmetry in Arabic according to Spanish missionary grammarians from Damascus (18th century)
Otto Zwartjes
273
Part VI. Oceania/Oceanía
Sintaxis implícita y explícita en el Primer Ensayo de Gramática de la lengua de Yap
Carmen Hoyos Hoyos
305
The brith of functional grammar in the 'Austronesian school' of missionary linguistics
Pierre Winkler
329
Addresses of contributors / Direcciones de los autores
345
Index of personal Names / Índice de nombres persona
347
Index of grammatical (and linguistic) terms / Índice de términos gramaticales y lingüísticos
351

Quotes

“Sin embargo, el gran valor informativo, tanto en la teoría como en los detalles lingüísticos, históricos y socioculturales de este volumen de actas contribuye a instalar la lingüística misionera dentro de la historia de la lingüística como una de sus ramas importantes, tanto en la actualidad como en el futuro.”
Wolf Dietrich, Universität Münster, Missionary Linguistics III - Lingüística misionera III: Morphology and Syntax.

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

BIC Subject

CFA: Philosophy of language

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2007060775
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