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And he knew our language

Titel:	And he knew our language : missionary linguistics on the Pacific northwest coast / Marcus Tomalin
Verfasser:	Tomalin, Marcus
Veröffentlicht:	[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (viii, 203 Seiten)
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
RVK-Notation:	EE 3271 · ER 500 · ER 545
ISBN:	1283093138 ; 9027246076 ; 9027286833 ; 9781283093132 ; 9789027246073 ; 9789027286833

Zusammenfassung:	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 Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses.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 rev

Zusammenfassung:

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 Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses.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 rev

And he knew our language

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