Book presentation: Otto Zwartjes “Missionary Grammars and dictionaries of Chinese”, 20 Sept 2024

Otto Zwartjes presents his new book on Mandarin Chinese studies by Spanish Dominicans, the oldest known sources to date.

Université Paris-Cité, Laboratoire HTL. Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 533, and online via Zoom.

9h30-11h30, 20 September 2024

During this presentation, several relevant topics will be selected, which are important for “Task 5” (Western manuscript dictionaries in the History of Chinese Linguistics) of the Chedil project (ANR): Chinese-European Dictionaries: Lexicographical Manuscripts for the Historical Study of Exchanges between China and Europe (end of 16^th – beginning of the 19^th centuries (PI: Michela Bussotti), such as:

• The role played by Western manuscript dictionaries in the histories of Chinese Linguistics and missionary linguistics,
• The different systems used to transcribe the sounds in Latin letters,
• Lemma arrangement of the dictionaries,
• Interaction between lexicographical traditions (East and West),
• Microstructural level of the lemmas,
• The junction between dictionaries and grammars.

Zoom link and further information: https://htl.cnrs.fr/20-septembre-2024-otto-zwartjes-missionary-grammars-and-dictionaries-of-chinese-the-contribution-of-seventeenth-century-spanish-dominicans/