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Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera : Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13-16 March 2003.

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zwartjes, Otto
Otros Autores: Hovdhaugen, Even
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2004.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages)
ISBN:9789027285416
9027285411
1283092476
9781283092470