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 Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Company,
[2011]
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| Series: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Studies in the history of the language sciences ;
v. 116. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses.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 revised. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027286833 9789027286833 1283093138 9781283093132 9027246076 9789027246073 9786613093134 6613093130 |