Full Description
Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth - nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty (extinct) indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages: Matlatzinca, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Purépecha, Zapotec (Mexico); K'iche, Kaqchikel (Guatemala); Amage, Aymara, Cholón, Huarpe, Kunza, Mochica, Mapudungun, Proto-Tacanan, Pukina, Quechua, Uru-Chipaya (Peru); Tehuelche (Patagonia); (Tupi-)Guarani (Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay).
The results of the studies include: a) a digital model of a good, conveniently arranged vocabulary, applicable to all indigenous Amerindian languages; b) disclosure of intertextual relationships, language contacts, circulation of knowledge; c) insights in grammatical structures; d) phone analyses; e) transcriptions, so that the texts remain accessible for further research. f) the architecture of grammars; g) conceptual evolutions and innovations in grammaticography.
Contents
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Mesoamerica
1 "The Beginning of Times" in Two Texts of Preachment from New Spain (Sixteenth Century)
Pilar Máynez, Mercedes Montes de Oca and Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna
2 Reviving Words: Methodological Implications and Digital Solutions for Editing and Corpus-Building of Colonial K'iche' Dictionaries
Frauke Sachse and Michael Dürr
3 Wide-Lensed Approaches to Missionary Linguistics: The Circulation of Knowledge on Amerindian Languages through Sixteenth-Century Spanish Printed Grammars
Zanna Van Loon and Andy Peetermans
4 Between Grammars and Dictionaries: The 'Tratado de las partículas' (Treatise on Particles) in Diego de Basalenque's Work on Matlatzinca
Otto Zwartjes
Part 2 South America
5 Were There Ever Any Adjectives? The Recognition of the Absence of an Autonomous Adjective Class in Tupi-Guarani as Demonstrated in the Earliest Missionary Grammars
Justin Case
6 Chinchaysuyu Quechua and Amage Confession Manuals: Colonial Language and Culture Contact in Central Peru
Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz and Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus
7 Prosodia da Língua, an Unpublished Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Dictionary of Língua Geral Amazônica
Wolf Dietrich
8 Patagonian Lexicography (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez and Alejandra Regúnaga
9 Language Contacts of Pukina
Katja Hannß
10 Puquina Kin Terms
Arjan Mossel, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Simon van de Kerke and Willem F.H. Adelaar
11 The Representation of the Velar Nasal in Colonial Grammars and Other Pre-modern Sources on the Languages of the Central Andean Region
Matthias Urban
Index
