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Pierre-Philippe Potier’s Elementa Grammaticae Huronicae (1745)
Zanna Van Loon University of Leuven Introduction Instead of imposing European languages, Catholic friars conducting missions in the Americas in the early modern period opted to learn indigenous tongues to more efficiently teach local communities the religious doctrine. To guarantee…
Tagged with: circulation of knowledge, grammar, missionary linguistics, New France, pierre-philippe potier
Posted in 18th century, America, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 18th century, America, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics
Missionary-induced language change, on the trail of the conditional in Nafsan, central Vanuatu
Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne Can a missionary make a change to a language so that an existing construction is replaced by one based on English? This is what appears to have happened in Nafsan, Efate, in Vanuatu, which has independently…
Tagged with: Efate, missionary linguistics, Vanuatu
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 19th century, Article, Field linguistics, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Translator proditor. The affirmation of the authorial voice in MatĂas Ruiz Blanco.
Roxana Sarion University of TromsĂž, Norway MatĂas RuĂz Blanco (1643-1705/1708?) was a Franciscan friar who served as a missionary, historian and linguist in colonial Venezuela. Born in the village of Estepa in the Spanish region of Andalusia, he was devoted…
Tagged with: MatĂas RuĂz Blanco, missionary linguistics
Posted in 17th century, America, Article, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Posted in 17th century, America, Article, Grammars, History, Linguistics, Missionary Linguistics
Translation as a search for divine meanings: Fray Francisco Blancas de San José and his grammar of the Tagalog language
Marlon James SALES Monash University The pastoral visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines in January 2015, which gathered the biggest crowd ever assembled for a Papal event in history, has put to fore the nexus between translation and religion in…
Tagged with: 17th century, missionary linguistics, Philippines, Tagalog, translation
Posted in 17th century, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics, Philippines, Translation
Posted in 17th century, Article, History, Missionary Linguistics, Philippines, Translation
German Lutheran Missionaries and the Linguistic Landscape of Central Australia 1890-1910
David Moore University of Western Australia My research aims to investigate documentation and research in the languages of Central Australia, providing a valid interpretation of the materials of the earliest work on the Aranda (Arrernte, Arrarnta) language of Central Australia.…
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