Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera
Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13–16 March 2003
Editors
When the first European missionaries arrived on other continents, it was decided that the indigenous languages would be used as the means of christianization. There emerged the need to produce grammars and dictionaries of those languages. The study of this linguistic material has so far not received sufficient attention in the field of linguistic historiography. This volume is the first published collection of papers on missionary linguistics world-wide; it represents the insights of recent research, containing an introduction and papers on methodology, meta-historiography, the historical and cultural background. The book contains studies about early-modern linguistic works written in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French, describing among others indigenous languages from North America and Australia, Maya, Quechua, Xhosa, Japanese, Kapampangan, and Visaya. Topics dealt with include: innovations of individual missionaries in lexicography, grammatical analysis, phonology, morphology, or syntax; creativity in descriptive techniques; differences and/or similarities of works from different continents, and different religious backgrounds (Catholic or Protestant).
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 106] 2004. vi, 288 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 April 2011
Published online on 8 April 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionOtto Zwartjes and Even Hovdhaugen | p. 1
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Metahistoriography, methodology and general subjects/ Metahistografía, metodología y temas generales
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La construcción del objeto de la historiografía de la lingüística misioneraKlaus Zimmermann | p. 7
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The Social Roots of Missionary LinguisticsNicholas Ostler | p. 33
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North America (north of Mexico) / América del norte
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Notes on Missionary Linguistics in North AmericaE.F.K. Koerner | p. 47
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Latin America/ América latina
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Los misioneros españoles y el estudio de las lenguas mayasHans-Josef Niederehe | p. 81
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Las perífrasis verbales en la Gramática quechua de Diego González Holguín (1607)Julio Calvo Pérez | p. 93
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Africa/ África
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Colonization and Linguistic Representation: British Methodist Grammarians' Approaches to Xhosa (1834-1850)Rachael Gilmour | p. 113
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Asia
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Linguistic Studies by Portuguese Jesuits in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century JapanToru Maruyama | p. 141
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La categoría de los 'adverbios pronominales' en el Arte de la lengua japona (1738) de Melchor Oyanguren de Santa InésEun Mi Bae | p. 161
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La primitiva tradición gramatical sobre el pampangoEmilio Ridruejo | p. 179
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Notas de lexicografía hispano-filipina: El Bocabulario de lengua bisaya, hiligueyna y haraya de la isla de Panay y Sugbu y para las demas islas, de fray Alonso Méntrida, OSA (ca. 1637)Joaquín García-Medall | p. 201
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El papel de los misioneros en la descripción de lenguas asiáticas por Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735-1809)Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez | p. 233
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Australia
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Lancelot Threlkeld and Missionary Linguistics in Australia to 1850Hilary M. Carey | p. 253
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Addresses of contributors/ Direcciones de autores | p. 277
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Index of Biographical Names/ Índice de autores | p. 279
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Index of Grammatical (and linguistical) Terms/ Índice de términos gramaticales y lingüísticos | p. 283
“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
“This collection is an important contribution to the history of linguistics, especially of the Eastern Hemisphere.”
Peter T. Daniels, Jersey City, NJ., in Language volume 83:1 (2007)
“[...] es de extraordinario interés tanto para los especialistas en la historia de la lingüística aplicada como para los expertos en la evolución de las ideas lingüísticas en el enorme laboratorio humano del contraste de lenguas a largo de la historia. La tradición lingüística misionera se enfrentó, y en muchas ocasiones con notable éxito, al complejo problema de la comunicación interlingüística e intercultural. Su estudio no puede sino echar luz sobre una cuestión cada vez más presente en el mundo actual.”
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez, in Moenia, Revista Lucense de Lingüística & Literatura, Vol. 11, 2005
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