Main description:
This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of the European colonial enterprises along the period 1550-1850, described dozens of autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks to their endeavours. The twelve papers joint in the present volume - which dedicated special attention to the orthographical and phonological dimension of their work - provide a comprehensive picture of the descriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre, notably: the difficulties faced before the less familiar features of these languages, such as vowel quantity, accentuation, tonality, nasalization, glottalization, 'gutturalization'; the building of (re)definitions and the creation of a new metalanguage, like 'saltillo', 'guturaciones', etc.; The book elucidates the creativity and innovations proposed by individual missionaries and the instructive and pedagogical dimension of their work.
Table of contents:
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Part I. New Spain/ Nueva España
- Phonological Description in New Spain
- Tarascan Orthography in the 16th Century
- La representación escritural del maya de Yucatán desde la época prehispánica hasta la colonia
- Traducción, préstamos y teoría del lenguaje
- Part II. South America/ América del Sur
- Fonología y ortografía de las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur a la luz de los primeros misioneros gramáticos
- How Was Mochica Being Pronounced?
- Cholón Sounds Reconstructed
- Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil
- Part III. Asia
- The Adaptation of the European Polyglot Dictionary of Calepino in Japan
- Las ligaturas en las gramáticas misioneras filipinas del siglo XVIII
- Análisis del Arte de la lengua Pangasinán (1690) de Fray Andrés López
- Phonetic Spellings in Historical Context vs Idiolect
- Addresses of Contributors / Direcciones de autores
- Index of Biographical Names / Índice de nombres biográficos
- Index of Grammatical (and linguistic) Terms/Índice de términos gramaticales (y lingüísticos
This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of the European colonial enterprises along the period 1550-1850, described dozens of autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks to their endeavours. The twelve papers joint in the present volume - which dedicated special attention to the orthographical and phonological dimension of their work - provide a comprehensive picture of the descriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre, notably: the difficulties faced before the less familiar features of these languages, such as vowel quantity, accentuation, tonality, nasalization, glottalization, 'gutturalization'; the building of (re)definitions and the creation of a new metalanguage, like 'saltillo', 'guturaciones', etc.; The book elucidates the creativity and innovations proposed by individual missionaries and the instructive and pedagogical dimension of their work.
Table of contents:
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Part I. New Spain/ Nueva España
- Phonological Description in New Spain
- Tarascan Orthography in the 16th Century
- La representación escritural del maya de Yucatán desde la época prehispánica hasta la colonia
- Traducción, préstamos y teoría del lenguaje
- Part II. South America/ América del Sur
- Fonología y ortografía de las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur a la luz de los primeros misioneros gramáticos
- How Was Mochica Being Pronounced?
- Cholón Sounds Reconstructed
- Arte de gramática da língua mais usada na costa do Brasil
- Part III. Asia
- The Adaptation of the European Polyglot Dictionary of Calepino in Japan
- Las ligaturas en las gramáticas misioneras filipinas del siglo XVIII
- Análisis del Arte de la lengua Pangasinán (1690) de Fray Andrés López
- Phonetic Spellings in Historical Context vs Idiolect
- Addresses of Contributors / Direcciones de autores
- Index of Biographical Names / Índice de nombres biográficos
- Index of Grammatical (and linguistic) Terms/Índice de términos gramaticales (y lingüísticos