Author: Alonso de MentridaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Diccionario De La Lengua Bisaya, Hiligueina Y Haraya de la isla de Panay
Author: Alonso de MentridaDiccionario de la Lengua Bisaya, Hiligueina Y Haraya de la Isla de Panay. (Diccionario Hispano-Bisaya. Compuesto Por ... Julian Martin.).
Author: Alonso de MENTRIDAMissionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera
Author: Otto ZwartjesPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027285411
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
When the first European missionaries arrived on other continents, it was decided that the indigenous languages would be used as the means of christianization. There emerged the need to produce grammars and dictionaries of those languages. The study of this linguistic material has so far not received sufficient attention in the field of linguistic historiography. This volume is the first published collection of papers on missionary linguistics world-wide; it represents the insights of recent research, containing an introduction and papers on methodology, meta-historiography, the historical and cultural background. The book contains studies about early-modern linguistic works written in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French, describing among others indigenous languages from North America and Australia, Maya, Quechua, Xhosa, Japanese, Kapampangan, and Visaya. Topics dealt with include: innovations of individual missionaries in lexicography, grammatical analysis, phonology, morphology, or syntax; creativity in descriptive techniques; differences and/or similarities of works from different continents, and different religious backgrounds (Catholic or Protestant).
The Pepet Law in Philippine Languages ...
Author: Carlos Everett ConantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippine languages
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Last Language on Earth
Author: Piers KellyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197509916
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
"The Eskayan language of Bohol in the southern Philippines has been an object of controversy ever since it came to light in the early 1980s. Written in an unusual script Eskayan bears no obvious similarity to any known language of the Philippines, a fact that has prompted speculation that it was either displaced from afar, fossilized from the deep past, or invented as an elaborate hoax. This book investigates the history of Eskayan through a systematic review of its writing system, grammar and lexicon, and carefully evaluates written and oral narratives provided by its contemporary speakers. The linguistic analysis largely supports the traditional view that Eskayan was the deliberate creation of a legendary ancestor by the name of Pinay. The study traces the identity of Pinay through the turbulent history of early 20th-century Bohol when the island suffered a series of catastrophes at the hands of the United States occupation. It was at this time that the ancestor Pinay was channelled by Mariano Datahan, a multilingual prophet who foretold that English and other languages would be abandoned and that Eskayan would one day be spoken by everyone in the world. To make sense of this situation, the book draws on theorizations of postcolonial resistance, language ideology, mimesis, and the utopian political dynamics of highland societies. In so doing, it offers a linguistic and ethnographic history of Eskayan and of the ideologies and historical circumstances that motivated its creation"--
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Nicolas TrübnerTrübner's American and Oriental literary record
Author: Trübner and CoBibliography of the Philippine Islands ...
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Trübner's Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World
Author: Trübner & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description