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Mon Feb 13 2006

Books: History of Linguistics: Zwartjes, Altman (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Paul Peranteau, Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II: Zwartjes, Altman (Eds)


Message 1: Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II: Zwartjes, Altman (Eds)
Date: 27-Jan-2006
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II: Zwartjes, Altman (Eds)


Title: Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II Subtitle: Orthography and Phonology. Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, São Paulo, 10-13 March 2004 Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 109 Published: 2005 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SiHoLS%20109

Editor: Otto Zwartjes, University of Oslo Editor: Cristina Altman, University of São Paulo Hardback: ISBN: 9027246009 Pages: vi, 292 Price: U.S. $ 138.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027246009 Pages: vi, 292 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Abstract:

This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic workproduced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of theEuropean colonial enterprises along the period 1550-1850, described dozensof autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks totheir endeavours. The twelve papers joint in the present volume - whichdedicated a special attention to the orthographical and phonologicaldimension of their work - provide a comprehensive picture of thedescriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre, notably: thedifficulties faced before the less familiar features of these languages,such as vowel quantity, accentuation, tonality, nasalization,glottalization, 'gutturalization'; the building of (re)definitions and thecreation of a new metalanguage, like 'saltillo', 'guturaciones', etc.; thecreativity and innovations proposed by individual missionaries and theinstructive and pedagogical dimension of their work.

Table of contents

Introduction and Acknowledgements 1

Part I. New Spain/ Nueva EspañaPhonological Description in New SpainThomas C. Smith-Stark 3

Tarascan Orthography in the 16th Century: The Franciscan Sources ofInspiration and their AnalysisCristina Monzón 65

La representación escritural del maya de Yucatán desde la épocaprehispánica hasta la colonia: proyecciones hacia el siglo XXIRamón Arzápalo Marín 89

Traducción, préstamos y teoría del lenguaje: La práctica transcultural delos lingüistas misioneros en el México del siglo XVIKlaus Zimmermann 107

Part II. South America/ América del SurFonología y ortografía de las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur a la luzde los primeros misioneros gramáticosJulio Calvo Pérez 137

How Was Mochica Being Pronounced?Even Hovdhaugen 171

Cholón Sounds Reconstructed: A symbol analysisAstrid Alexander-Bakkerus 181

Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil: A criterion forevaluationYonne de Freitas Leite 191

Part III. AsiaThe Adaptation of the European Polyglot Dictionary of Calepino in Japan:Dictionarium Latino Lusitanicum, ac Iaponicum (1595)Emi Kishimoto 205

Las ligaturas en las gramáticas misioneras filipinas del siglo XVIIIEmilio Ridruejo 225

Análisis del Arte de la lengua Pangasinán (1690) de Fray Andrés LópezJoaqun Sueiro Justel 247

Phonetic Spellings in Historical Context vs Idiolect: Two Japanese grammarsby João Rodriguez Tçûzu and his holograph documentsMasayuki Toyoshima 273

Addresses of Contributors / Direcciones de autores 281Index of Biographical Names / Índice de nombres biográficos 283Index of Grammatical (and linguistic) Terms/Índice de términos gramaticales(y lingüísticos 287

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics                             Phonology                             Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): Cholón (cht)                             Japanese (jpn)                             Pangasinan (pag)                             Portuguese (por)                             Spanish (spa)                             Maya, Yucatán (yua)                             Mochica (omc)
Written In: English (eng )

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