22.4984, Books: Historical Ling/Lang Documentation: Zwartjes

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Date: 07-Dec-2011
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil,
1550-1800: Zwartjes

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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:58:15
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800: Zwartjes

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Title: Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil,
1550-1800 
Series Title: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 117  

Publication Year: 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)

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