Missionary linguistic studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia /

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

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: Matlatzinc...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 22
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Alexander-Bakkerus, Astrid,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in language, cognition and culture ; Volume 22.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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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 Prosodia da Língua, an Unpublished Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Dictionary of Língua Geral Amazônica / Wolf Dietrich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.

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