Missionary linguistic studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia / / edited by Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus [and three others].

• Superior document: Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 22
• TeilnehmendeR: Alexander-Bakkerus, Astrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth – nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty (extinct) indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages: Matlatzinca, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Purépecha, Zapotec (Mexico); K’iche, Kaqchikel (Guatemala); Amage, Aymara, Cholón, Huarpe, Kunza, Mochica, Mapudungun, Proto-Tacanan, Pukina, Quechua, Uru-Chipaya (Peru); Tehuelche (Patagonia); (Tupi-)Guarani (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay). The results of the studies include: a) a digital model of a good, conveniently arranged vocabulary, applicable to all indigenous Amerindian languages; b) disclosure of intertextual relationships, language contacts, circulation of knowledge; c) insights in grammatical structures; d) phone analyses; e) transcriptions, so that the texts remain accessible for further research. f) the architecture of grammars; g) conceptual evolutions and innovations in grammaticography.

Table of Contents

Part I. Mesoamerica: 1. "The Beginning of Times" inTwo Texts of Preachment from New Spain (SixteenthCentury) / Pilar Máynez, Mercedes Montes de Oca and Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna -- 2. Reviving Words: Methodological Implications and Digital Solutions for Editing and Corpus-Building of Colonial K'iche' Dictionaries / Frauke Sachse and Michael Dürr -- 3. Wide-Lensed Approaches to Missionary Linguistics: The Circulation of Knowledge on Amerindian Languages through Sixteenth-Century Spanish Printed Grammars / Zanna Van Loon and Andy Peetermans -- 4. Between Grammars and Dictionaries: The 'Tratado de las partículas' (Treatise on Particles) in Diego de Basalenque's Work on Matlatzinca / Otto Zwartjes -- Part II. South America: 5. Were There Ever Any Adjectives?The Recognition of the Absence of an Autonomous Adjective Class in Tupi-Guaranias Demonstrated in the Earliest Missionary Grammars / Justin Case -- 6. Chinchaysuyu Quechua and Amage Confession Manuals: Colonial Language and Culture Contact in Central Peru / Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz and Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus -- 7. Prosodia da Língua, an Unpublished Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Dictionary of Língua Geral Amazônica / Wolf Dietrich -- 8. Patagonian Lexicography (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez and Alejandra Regúnaga -- 9. Language Contacts of Pukina / Katja Hannss -- 10. Puquina Kin Terms / Arjan Mossel, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Simon van de Kerke and Willem F. H. Adelaar -- 11. The Representation of the Velar Nasal in Colonial Grammars and Other Pre-modern Sources on the Languages of the Central Andean Region / Matthias Urban -- Index.