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

Editors

Otto Zwartjes | University of Amsterdam

Gregory James | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Emilio Ridruejo | University of Valladolid

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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.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.111

Table of Contents

Foreword and acknowledgements | p. v

Part I: General

Nebrija y los modelos de los misioneros lingüistas del náhuatl

Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres | p. 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 | p. 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 | p. 59

Morphology in the 16th-century Artes of Tarascan: The case of the suffix -tsi or -ts

Cristina Monzón | p. 75

Part IV. South America/ América del Sur

Nominal and verbal morphology in the Vocabluario Conivo and in the Diccionario Sipibo

Beatriz Christino | p. 91

Teoría y práctica de la traducción según un manuscrito de Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, S.J. (1651)

Bartomeu Melià | p. 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 | p. 123

Morfología de los artículos de los nombres propios en la historiografía hispano-filipina de los siglos XVII y XVIII

Joaquín García-Medall | p. 145

The terminology of declension in early missionary grammars of Tamil

Gregory James | p. 167

"ay sinco lenguas algo diferentes": Chinese vernaculars in early missionary sources

Henning Klöter | p. 191

Padre Joaquim Afonso Gonçalves (1781-1834) and the Arte China (1829): An innovative linguistic approach to teaching Chinese grammar

Joseph A. Levi | p. 211

El problema de la descripción del sujeto o del tópico nominal en las primeras gramáticas filipinas

Emilio Ridruejo | p. 233

La expresión lingüística de la idea de cantidad en algunas gramáticas filipinas

Joaqun Sueiro Justel | p. 251

Agreement asymmetry in Arabic according to Spanish missionary grammarians from Damascus (18th century)

Otto Zwartjes | p. 273

Part VI. Oceania/Oceanía

Sintaxis implícita y explícita en el Primer Ensayo de Gramática de la lengua de Yap

Carmen Hoyos Hoyos | p. 305

The brith of functional grammar in the 'Austronesian school' of missionary linguistics

Pierre Winkler | p. 329

Addresses of contributors / Direcciones de los autores | p. 345

Index of personal Names / Índice de nombres persona | p. 347

Index of grammatical (and linguistic) terms / Índice de términos gramaticales y lingüísticos | p. 351

“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.

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Linguistics

History of linguistics

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CFA: Philosophy of language

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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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