Missionary Linguistics Iv Lingüística Misionera Iv

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Ramón Arzápalo Marín,Thomas C. Smith-Stark
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 353 pages
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Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027290397

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Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV by Otto Zwartjes,Ramón Arzápalo Marín,Thomas C. Smith-Stark Pdf

This fourth volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on lexicography. It contains a selection of papers derived from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics held in Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), 14th–17th March 2007. As with the previous three volumes (2004, on general issues, 2005, on orthography and phonology, and 2007 on morphology and syntax), this volume looks at the lexicographical production of missionaries in general, the influence of European sources, such as Ambrogio Calepino and Antonio de Nebrija, translation theories, attitudes toward non-Western cultures, trans- and interculturality, semantics, morphological analysis and organizational principles of the dictionaries, such as styles and structure of the entries, citation forms, etc. It presents research into languages such as Maya, Nahuatl, Tarasco (Pur’épecha), Lushootseed, Equatorian Quechua, Tupinambá, Ilocan, Tamil and Southern Min Chinese dialects.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Klaus Zimmermann,Martina Schrader-Kniffki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027270580

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Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V by Otto Zwartjes,Klaus Zimmermann,Martina Schrader-Kniffki Pdf

The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the missionaries’ lexicographic condensation of bilingual dictionaries. The study of these instances permits the analysis and interpretation of their guiding principles, their translation practice and underlying reasoning. It also permits the modern linguist to discern semantic changes that can be revealed in these missionary translations over certain periods. Up to now there has hardly been any study available that focuses on translation in missionary sources, of the different traditions in the Americas or Asia. This book will fill this gap, addressing the legacy of missionary translation practices and theories, the role of translation in evangelization and its particular form in the context of colonialism, the creation of loans from Spanish or Latin or equivalents or paraphrases in the indigenous languages in texts and dictionaries as translation strategies followed in bilingual editions. The process of acculturation and transculturation imposed by European religious systems is noted. This volume presents research on languages such as Nahuatl, Tarascan (Pur’épecha), Zapotec, Tamil, Chinese, Japanese, Pangasinán, and other Austronesian languages from the Philippines.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Ramón Arzápalo Marín,Thomas Cedric Smith-Stark
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246059

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Lingüística Misionera IV by Otto Zwartjes,Ramón Arzápalo Marín,Thomas Cedric Smith-Stark Pdf

This fourth volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on lexicography. As with the previous three volumes (2004, on general issues, 2005, on orthography and phonology, and 2007 on morphology and syntax), research into languages such as Maya, Nahuatl, Tarasco (Purepecha), Lushootseed, Equatorian Quechua, Tupinamba, Ilocan, Tamil and Southern Min Chinese dialects.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Even Hovdhaugen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027285416

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Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera by Otto Zwartjes,Even Hovdhaugen Pdf

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).

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Paolo De Troia
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258434

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Missionary Linguistics VI by Otto Zwartjes,Paolo De Troia Pdf

This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the Society of Jesus and their linguistic production, but also covers linguistic works written by Franciscans, the Order of Discalced Carmelites and works of other religious institutions, such as the Propaganda Fide and the Missions Étrangères de Paris. New insights are provided regarding these works and their reception among European scholars interested in these ‘exotic’ languages and cultures. Each text is placed in its historical context and various approaches to some of the most important descriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre are analyzed, such as the establishment of an adequate romanization system, the description of typological features of these Asian languages, such as tonality and aspiration in Chinese and Vietnamese, agglutination and derivational morphology in Japanese and Tamil, and, pragmatics, in particular politeness in Japanese. This volume not only looks at methodology and descriptive techniques, but also comments on missionary linguistic policies in Asia and offers articles of interest to historiographers of linguistics, historians, typologists, descriptive linguists and those interested in translation studies.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Gregory James,Emilio Ridruejo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027291738

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Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III by Otto Zwartjes,Gregory James,Emilio Ridruejo Pdf

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.

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Ramón Arzápalo Marín,Thomas C. Smith-Stark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055299570

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Lingüística Misionera by Otto Zwartjes,Ramón Arzápalo Marín,Thomas C. Smith-Stark Pdf

Author : Otto Zwartjes,Cristina Altman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285331

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Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II by Otto Zwartjes,Cristina Altman Pdf

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.

Author : Shobhana L. Chelliah,Willem J. de Reuse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789048190263

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Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork by Shobhana L. Chelliah,Willem J. de Reuse Pdf

The Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork is the most comprehensive reference on linguistic fieldwork on the market bringing together all the reader needs to carry out successful linguistic fieldwork. Based on the experiences of two veteran linguistic fieldworkers and advice from more than a twenty active fieldwork researchers, this handbook provides an encyclopedic review of current publications on linguistic fieldwork and surveys past and present approaches and solutions to problems in the field, and the historical, political, and social variables correlating with fieldwork in different areas of the world. The discussion of the ethical dimensions of fieldwork, as well as what constitutes the “typical” linguistic fieldwork setting or consultant is explored from multiple perspectives relevant to fieldwork on every continent. Included is information omitted in most other texts on the subject such as the collection, representation, management, and methods of extracting grammatical information from discourse and conversational data as well as the relationship between questionnaire-based elicitation, text-based elicitation, and philology, and the need for combinations of these methods. The book is useful before, during and after linguistic field trips since it provides extensive practical macro and micro organization and planning fieldwork tips as well as a handy sketch of major typological features for use in linguistic analysis. Comprehensive references are provided at the end of each chapter as resources relevant to the reader's particular interests.

Author : Marcin Kilarski
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258977

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A History of the Study of the Indigenous Languages of North America by Marcin Kilarski Pdf

The languages indigenous to North America are characterized by a remarkable genetic and typological diversity. Based on the premise that linguistic examples play a key role in the origin and transmission of ideas within linguistics and across disciplines, this book examines the history of approaches to these languages through the lens of some of their most prominent properties. These properties include consonant inventories and the near absence of labials in Iroquoian languages, gender in Algonquian languages, verbs for washing in the Iroquoian language Cherokee and terms for snow and related phenomena in Eskimo-Aleut languages. By tracing the interpretations of the four examples by European and American scholars, the author illustrates their role in both lay and professional contexts as a window onto unfamiliar languages and cultures, thus allowing a more holistic view of the history of language study in North America.

Author : Marcus Tomalin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027246073

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And He Knew Our Language by Marcus Tomalin Pdf

This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. Since this book draws upon recent work in theoretical linguistics, religious history, translation studies, and anthropology, it emphasises the unavoidably interdisciplinary nature of Missionary Linguistics research.

Author : E. F. K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027209603

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Toward a Historiography of Linguistics by E. F. K. Koerner Pdf

The papers brought together in the present volume represent the essence of the author s reflections on issues concerning linguistic historiography and of particular investigations in 19th and 20th century linguistic thought. The papers are clustered in three sections: I. Towards a Historiography of Linguistics, II. Appraisals of Individual Scholars, and III. Trends and Traditions in Linguistics.

Author : Antonio Quilis Morales,Hans-Josef Niederehe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286307

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The History of Linguistics in Spain by Antonio Quilis Morales,Hans-Josef Niederehe Pdf

This selection of papers is concerned with the history of linguistics in Spain, dealing with the evolution of linguistic ideas from the Middle Ages and the European context of the linguistic debates in Spain to the 20th century, concluding with Malkiel's appraisal of Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1869–1968). The volume includes papers on Antonio Nebrija and Sanctius, probably the best-known grammarians of the Iberian peninsula, but – as the other papers suggest – there is much more to be known about the Spanish linguistic traditions.The papers in this volume were previously published in Historiographia Linguistica XI:1/2 (1984).

Author : Michael G. Carter
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286512

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Arab Linguistics by Michael G. Carter Pdf

This volume provides an analysis of a famous medieval Arabic grammatical text, al-Ājurrūmiya (c. 1300), as commented on by aš-Šhirbīnī (d. 1570). This edition includes the original text and a translation into English, as well as extensive comments and annotations, with the aim of making accessible both to Arabists and non-Arabists the main elements of indigenous Arabic linguistics, and thereby at least partially filling a large blank in the history of linguistics.

Author : Vivian Salmon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027245359

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The Study of Language in 17th-century England by Vivian Salmon Pdf

This volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the universal language .