"And he knew our language"
This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the...
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| description | This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-320052025-07-30T21:32:01Z "And he knew our language" Tomalin, Marcus Linguistics History of Linguistics Missionary Linguistics Anthropology thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFA Philosophy of language This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-01-30 23:55 2020-03-13 03:00:33 2020-04-01T10:56:34Z 2011 book 1004094 OCN: 1100521179 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45300 9789027286833 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32005 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45300/1/1004094.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45300/1/1004094.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45300/1/1004094.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45300/1/1004094.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/45300/1/1004094.pdf John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 10.1075/sihols.116 10.1075/sihols.116 a0ecc02e-9674-41da-98fe-e7842d79279a Knowledge Unlatched 9789027286833 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books John Benjamins Publishing Company open access |
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