28.2364, Books: Missionary Pragmalinguistics: Winkler

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Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 17:07:56
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Missionary Pragmalinguistics: Winkler

 


Title: Missionary Pragmalinguistics 
Subtitle: Father Diego Luis de Sanvitores’ grammar (1668) within the tradition of
Philippine grammars 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/missionary-pragmalinguistics 


Author: Pierre Winkler

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932182 Pages: 219 Price: Europe EURO 31.00


Abstract:

The grammar written in Latin, in 1668, by the Jesuit missionary Father Diego
Luis de Sanvitores (1627-1672) is the oldest description we have of Chamorro,
a language spoken on the Mariana islands, a group of islands in the Pacific
Ocean. In the course of time this grammar has received a number of bad reviews
and as a consequence has been neglected and almost forgotten. The main point
of criticism is that Sanvitores uses the Latin grammatical framework to
explain the structure of a language that in many ways does not fit into this
framework. In this thesis, however, the author shows that Sanvitores had a
remarkable insight into the linguistic structure of Chamorro. The author also
reveals that Sanvitores and his contemporary missionaries working in this
‘Philippine area’ in fact adapted the Latin framework to make it fit for
explaining the native languages of this area and that they redefined Latin
grammatical terminology in order to create a vocabulary suitable for their
newly adopted pragmalinguistic method.

The author shows that Sanvitores and his colleague missionaries working in
this area have been criticized unjustly throughout the subsequent ages in not
having understood the languages they described. It is argued that, instead,
their approach was astonishingly innovative; that in fact they were roughly
three hundred years ahead of their time in developing a pragmalinguistic
method of analysis; and that even in some linguistic matters which are still
subject of debate today among linguists they take clear and convincing stands.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Chamorro (cha)


Written In: English  (eng)

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