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, uechua, 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 contentsIntroduction 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 SeventeenthCentury 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 porLorenzo 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