Portuguese missionary grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800 / Otto Zwartjes
- Bib ID:
- 5786929
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Zwartjes, Otto
- Description:
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- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011
- XIV, 359 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789027246080
- 9789027283252
- Series:
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- Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 117
- Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 117.
- Full contents:
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- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
- 1.1.Goal of the study
- 1.2.The historiographical neglect of missionary linguistics
- 1.3.The contribution of missionary linguistics to the study of the typology of languages
- 1.4.Missionary linguists as field-workers: Their attitudes
- 1.5.The description of exotic languages and the development of linguistic concepts
- 1.6.The goals and structure of this study
- 1.6.1.What do we want to know?
- 1.6.1.1.Phonology and orthography
- 1.6.1.2.Morphosyntax
- 1.6.1.3.The lexicon
- 1.6.1.4.Extra-grammatical information
- 1.6.2.What do we have?
- References
- ch. 2 The Indian subcontinent
- 2.1.Introduction
- 2.1.1.Historical background
- 2.1.2.The Indian grammatical tradition
- 2.2.Tamil. Henrique Henriques (or, Anrique Anriquez) (1520-1600)
- 2.2.1.The life and work of Henrique Henriques
- 2.2.2.Henriques's Tamil grammar: Authorship and sources
- 2.2.3.Henriques's Tamil grammar and the Tamil language
- Contents note continued: 2.2.3.1.Malabar and Tamil
- 2.2.3.2.The structure of Henriques's grammar
- 2.2.3.3.Henriques's treatment of Tamil orthography and phonology
- 2.2.3.4.Henriques's treatment of Tamil nominal declension
- 2.2.3.5.Henriques's treatment of the Tamil verb
- 2.2.3.6.Henriques's explicit comparisons between Tamil and Portuguese
- 2.2.3.7.Henriques's treatment of Tamil word order
- 2.2.3.8.Henriques's treatment of agreement in Tamil
- 2.2.3.9.Henriques's treatment of variation within Tamil
- 2.2.3.10.Henriques's meta-language
- 2.2.4.The reputation of Henriques's work
- 2.2.5.Other Tamil grammars
- 2.3.Konkani. Thomas Stephens (Thomaz Estevao 1549-1619)
- 2.3.1.The life of Thomas Stephens
- 2.3.2.Other early grammars of Konkani and neighbouring languages
- 2.3.3.The Konkani language
- 2.3.4.Stephens's Konkani grammar
- 2.3.4.1.Stephens's treatment of phonology and orthography
- 2.3.4.2.Stephens's treatment of Konkani nominal morphology
- Contents note continued: 2.3.4.3.Stephens's treatment of Konkani verbal morphology
- 2.3.4.4.Stephens's treatment of Konkani syntax. Word order and agreement
- 2.3.4.5.Stephens's treatment of ergativity
- 2.3.4.6.Stephens's meta-language
- 2.4.Bengali. Manoel da Assumpcam (fl. 1743)
- 2.4.1.Manoel da Assumpcam and his grammar
- 2.4.2.The Bengali language
- 2.4.2.1.Bengali and Portuguese
- 2.4.3.The grammar
- 2.4.3.1.Assumpcam's treatment of orthography and phonology
- 2.4.3.2.Assumpcam's treatment of nominal declension
- 2.4.3.3.Assumpcam's treatment of verbal morphology
- 2.4.3.4.Assumpcam's treatment of syntax
- 2.4.3.5.Assumpcam's treatment of word order and agreement
- 2.5.Marathi (Anonymous 1778a)
- 2.5.1.The Marathi language
- 2.5.2.The 1778 Marathi grammar
- 2.5.2.1.The grammar's treatment of Marathi phonology and orthography
- 2.5.2.2.The grammar's treatment of Marathi nominal morphology
- 2.5.2.3.The grammar's treatment of Marathi verbal morphology
- Contents note continued: 2.5.2.4.The grammar's treatment of Marathi syntax, word order and agreement
- 2.5.2.5.The grammar's treatment of ergativity
- 2.6.Hindi (Anonymous 1778b)
- 2.6.1.Previous grammars of Hindi by Europeans
- 2.6.2.The language
- 2.6.3.1.The grammar's view of the Hindi language
- 2.6.3.2.The structure of the grammar
- 2.6.3.3.The grammar's treatment of Hindi phonology and orthography
- 2.6.3.4.The grammar's treatment of nominal declension
- 2.6.3.5.The grammar's treatment of verbal inflection
- 2.6.3.6.The grammar's treatment of adverbs
- 2.6.3.7.The grammar's treatment of the article
- 2.6.3.8.The grammar's treatment of agreement and word order
- 2.6.3.9.The grammar's treatment of agreement and ergativity
- 2.7.Conclusion
- ch. 3 Missionary linguistics in Japan
- 3.1.Introduction
- 3.2.The activities of Joao Rodrigues (1562-1633)
- 3.2.1.His life
- 3.2.2.His work
- 3.2.3.Sources of Rodrigues' grammar
- 3.2.3.1.European sources
- Contents note continued: 3.2.3.2.Japanese sources
- 3.3.The Japanese language as described by Rodrigues
- 3.3.1.Language variation: Coye and yomi
- 3.3.2.Geographical distinctions
- 3.3.3.Diachrony: The `Old Language' and the concept of auctoritas
- 3.3.4.Christian terminology: Loans from Latin and Portuguese
- 3.3.5.On the best way of learning Japanese
- 3.4.Phonology and orthography
- 3.5.Morphology
- 3.5.1.Inflection
- 3.5.1.1.Nominal inflection and `Cases'
- 3.5.1.2.Adjective noun ("Nome adjectiuo")
- 3.5.1.3.Verbal inflection
- 3.5.1.4.Honorificity
- 3.5.1.5.Causatives
- 3.6.Syntax: Word order and agreement
- 3.6.1.Japanese as an SOV language
- 3.6.2.Japanese as a left-branching language
- 3.7.Rodrigues as an historian and ethnographer
- 3.8.Conclusion
- ch. 4 Missionary linguistics in Brazil
- 4.1.Introduction: Missionaries in Spanish and Portuguese America
- 4.1.1.Missionaries and lenguas generales/linguas gerais
- Contents note continued: 4.1.2.Missionary linguistics in Portuguese America
- 4.2.Tupi grammars
- 4.2.1.Joseph de Anchieta (1534-1597)
- 4.2.1.1.Introduction: Anchieta and his forerunners
- 4.2.1.2.The language described by Anchieta
- 4.2.1.3.The structure of the grammar
- 4.2.1.4.Phonology and orthography
- 4.2.1.5.The concept of `Case' as applied to Tupi
- 4.2.1.6.The pronouns
- 4.2.1.7.Nominal and verbal inflection
- 4.2.1.8.Nouns, `Adjectives', and `Adverbs'
- 4.2.1.9.Syntax
- 4.2.2.Antonio de Araujo's Cathecismo (1618)
- 4.2.3.Luiz Figueira (1575-1643)
- 4.2.3.1.The language described by Figueira
- 4.2.3.2.Orthography and phonology
- 4.2.3.3.Morphosyntax
- 4.2.3.4.The inclusive-exclusive distinction
- 4.2.3.5.Syntax and agreement
- 4.2.3.6.Word order
- 4.2.4.The anonymous grammar of the Lingua geral amazonica. Biblioteca de Coimbra, no. 69 (1750)
- 4.2.4.1.Introduction
- 4.2.4.2.The author
- 4.2.4.3.The manuscript
- 4.2.4.4.Language variation
- Contents note continued: 4.2.4.5.Language change
- 4.2.4.6.The grammar
- 4.2.4.7.The eight parts of speech and language universals
- 4.2.4.8.The pronominal system
- 4.2.4.9.The `Pronomes Extravagantes'
- 4.3.The Kiriri grammar of Luiz Vincencio Mamiani (1652-1730)
- 4.3.1.Introduction
- 4.3.2.The language
- 4.3.3.Sources for eastern Brazilian languages of the Macro-Je family
- 4.3.4.The grammar
- 4.3.4.1.The sources of the grammar
- 4.3.4.2.References to other languages and language variety
- 4.3.5.Phonology and orthography
- 4.3.5.1.The vowels
- 4.3.5.2.The consonants
- 4.3.5.3.Diacritics
- 4.3.6.Morphosyntax
- 4.3.6.1."Inflection"
- 4.3.6.2.The inclusive-exclusive distinction
- 4.3.6.3.The animate versus inanimate distinction
- 4.3.7.Syntax
- 4.3.7.1.Word order and agreement
- 4.3.7.2.Ergativity
- 4.4.Conclusion
- ch. 5 African languages
- 5.1.Introduction
- 5.1.1.Three grammars of African languages
- Contents note continued: 5.1.2.Their context in the early study of African languages
- 5.1.3.Early catechisms in African languages
- 5.2.The Capuchin Hyacinth Brusciotto and his Kongo grammar (1659)
- 5.2.1.The language
- 5.2.2.Phonology
- 5.2.3.Morphosyntax
- 5.2.3.1.Nominal inflection, declensions, `Cases' and the noun-classes
- 5.2.3.2.Verbal morphology
- 5.2.4.Syntax
- 5.3.Pedro Dias (1622-1700)
- 5.3.1.The language
- 5.3.1.1.The structure of the grammar
- 5.3.2.Phonology and orthography
- 5.3.3.Morphosyntax
- 5.3.3.1.Nominal morphology
- 5.3.3.2.Verbal morphology
- 5.4.The anonymous "Arte da lingua de Cafre"
- 5.4.1.The language
- 5.4.2.Phonology and orthography
- 5.4.3.Morphosyntax
- 5.4.3.1.Nominal morphology
- 5.4.3.2.Verbal morphology
- 5.4.4.Meta-language
- 5.5.Conclusion
- ch. 6 Arabic and Hebrew
- 6.1.Introduction
- 6.2.Arabic
- 6.2.1.Introduction
- 6.2.2.The grammars and their sources
- 6.2.3.The language
- Contents note continued: 6.2.4.The structure of the grammar of de Sousa, compared with those of Erpenius and Guadagnoli
- 6.2.5.Phonology and orthography
- 6.2.6.Parts of speech and morphology
- 6.2.7.Syntax. Word order and agreement
- 6.3.Hebrew
- 6.4.Conclusion
- ch. 7 Conclusion
- 7.1.Phonology and orthography
- 7.1.1.The Indian subcontinent
- 7.1.2.Japan
- 7.1.3.Brazil
- 7.1.4.Africa
- 7.1.5.Arabic and Hebrew
- 7.2.Morphosyntax
- 7.2.1.India
- 7.2.2.Japan
- 7.2.3.Brazil
- 7.2.4.Africa
- 7.3.Parts of speech
- 7.3.1.Adaptations of the traditional model
- 7.3.2.Articles
- 7.4.Extra-grammatical information
- 7.5.A Portuguese tradition?
- APPENDIX Lexicography
- 1.The Indian subcontinent
- 1.1.The Indian lexicographical tradition
- 1.1.1.Sanskrit
- 1.1.2.Tamil
- 1.2.Dictionaries compiled by Europeans
- 1.3.Konkani
- 1.4.Hindi
- 1.5.Other languages
- 2.Japan
- 2.1.The Japanese lexicographical tradition.
- Contents note continued: 2.2.The Vocabulario of 1595 and the Dictionarium of 1603-1604
- 2.3.Meta-linguistic terms in the dictionaries
- 3.China and Cochinchina (Vietnam)
- 3.1.Introduction
- 3.2.The Chinese linguistic tradition
- 3.3.Chinese dictionaries composed by westerners
- 3.3.1.The Dicionario Portugues-Chines
- 3.3.2.Other early European studies of Chinese
- 3.3.Cochinchina (Vietnam) and Malaya
- 3.3.1.The Roman alphabet and the description of tone
- 3.3.2.Morphology and syntax
- 3.3.3.Malay
- 4.Brazil
- 5.African languages
- 6.Arabic and Hebrew
- 6.1.Arabic
- 6.2.Hebrew.
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