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Directory         1.     Paul Peranteau , Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800: Zwartjes Message 1: Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800: Zwartjes Date: 07-Dec-2011 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800: Zwartjes E-mail this message to a friend Title: Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800 Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 117 Published: 2011 Publisher: John Benjamins                 http://www.benjamins.com/ Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/sihols.117 Author: Otto Zwartjes Electronic: ISBN: 9789027283252 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 110.00 Electronic: ISBN: 9789027283252 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027246080 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 110.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027246080 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9789027246080 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 116.60 Abstract: From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local languages. A great wealth of missionary grammars survives from the 16th century onwards. Some of these are precious records of the languages they document, and all of them witness their authors' attempts to develop the methods of grammatical description with which they were familiar, to accommodate dramatically new linguistic features.This book is the first monograph covering the whole Portuguese grammatical tradition outside Portugal. Its aim is to provide an integrated description, analysis and evaluation of the missionary grammars which were written in Portuguese. Between them, these grammars covered a huge range of languages: in Asia, Tamil, four Indo-Aryan languages and Japanese; in Brazil, Kipeá and Tupinambá; in Africa and the African diaspora, Kimbundu and Sena (from the modern Angola and Mozambique respectively).Each text is placed in its historical context, and its linguistic context is analyzed, with particular attention to orthography, the parts of speech system, morphology and syntax. Whenever possible, pedagogical features of the grammars are discussed, together with their treatment of language variation and pragmatics, and the evidence they provide for the missionaries' attitude towards the languages they studied. Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Language Documentation Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)                             Karirí-Xocó (kzw)                             Kimbundu (kmb)                             Sena (seh)                             Tamil (tam)                             Tupinambá (tpn) Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=58558 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ Equinox Publishing Ltd http://www.equinoxpub.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. 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