"And he knew our language" : Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast
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 Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the...
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ftopenresearchl:oai:biblioboard.com:6ab20cdc-b65a-4eba-a0d2-d79cfc7c71db 2024-09-15T18:10:33+00:00 "And he knew our language" : Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast Tomalin, Marcus 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z application/pdf https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/6ab20cdc-b65a-4eba-a0d2-d79cfc7c71db https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/6ab20cdc-b65a-4eba-a0d2-d79cfc7c71db/assets/external_content.pdf https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.116 English eng John Benjamins Publishing Company https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/6ab20cdc-b65a-4eba-a0d2-d79cfc7c71db https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/6ab20cdc-b65a-4eba-a0d2-d79cfc7c71db/assets/external_content.pdf ISBN:9789027286833 doi:10.1075/sihols.116 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode MODID-00000000488:Knowledge Unlatched MODID-a7be3d8b4c6:John Benjamins Publishing Company MODID-5c2bd499bba:KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics bisacsh:LAN009000 BOOK 2011 ftopenresearchl https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.116 2024-08-26T09:50:42Z 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 Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses.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. Book haida Open Research Library |
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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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