Title: Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera
Subtitle: Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary
Linguistics, Oslo, 13-16 March 2003
Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 106
Editor: Otto Zwartjes, University of Oslo
Editor: Even Hovdhaugen, University of Oslo
Hardback: ISBN: 158811581X Pages: vi, 288 pp. Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027245975 Pages: vi, 288 pp. Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Abstract:
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).
Table of contents
Introduction
Otto Zwartjes and Even Hovdhaugen 1
Metahistoriography, methodology and general subjects/ Metahistografía,
metodología y temas generales
La construcción del objeto de la historiografía de la lingüística misionera
Klaus Zimmermann 7
The Social Roots of Missionary Linguistics
Nicholas Ostler 33
North America (north of Mexico) / América del norte
Notes on Missionary Linguistics in North America
E.F.K. Koerner 47
Latin America/ América latina
Los misioneros españoles y el estudio de las lenguas mayas
Hans-Josef Niederehe 81
Las perífrasis verbales en la Gramática quechua de Diego González Holguín
(1607)
Julio Calvo Pérez 93
Africa/ África
Colonization and Linguistic Representation: British Methodist Grammarians'
Approaches to Xhosa (1834-1850)
Rachael Gilmour 113
Asia
Linguistic Studies by Portuguese Jesuits in Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Century Japan
Toru Maruyama 141
La categoría de los 'adverbios pronominales' en el Arte de la lengua japona
(1738) de Melchor Oyanguren de Santa Inés
Eun Mi Bae 161
La primitiva tradición gramatical sobre el pampango
Emilio Ridruejo 179
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 201
El papel de los misioneros en la descripción de lenguas asiáticas por
Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735-1809) 233
Australia
Lancelot Threlkeld and Missionary Linguistics in Australia to 1850
Hilary M. Carey 253
Addresses of contributors/ Direcciones de autores 277
Index of Biographical Names/ Índice de autores 279
Index of Grammatical (and linguistical) Terms/ Índice de términos
gramaticales y lingüísticos 283
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
History of Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
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