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This essay focuses on the heterogeneous missionary contexts connected to the Portuguese Empire, in the hemisphere assigned to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) and Zaragoza (1529), ranging from Brasil, Sub-Saharan Africa, to India, Vietnam ...
Angelo Cattaneo
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பயன்பாட்டுத் தமிழ் இலக்கண நூல் உருவாக்கப் பின்புலமும் ஐரோப்பியர் வருகையும் Background of Tamil Functional Grammar and Entry of Europeans [PDF]
The usage of a language depends on two major factors such as speaking and writing. Texts in Tamil that aids in classifying grammatic forms and techniques can be termed as Functional Tamil Grammar.
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FONOLOGÍA DEL TUCANO OCCIDENTAL EN UN VOCABULARIO MISIONERO DEL ESPACIO GEOGRÁFICO ECUATO-COLOMBIANO (SIGLO XVIII) [PDF]
En este artículo se analiza la fonología de la lengua amazónica descrita en un Vocabulario fruto de la acción misionera por parte de los Padres Franciscanos del convento de Quito en las cuencas de los ríos Putumayo y Caquetá a lo largo del siglo XVIII.
Micaela Carrera de la Red
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Between Dogma and Data: Wilhelm Schmidt and the Afterlives of 19th-Century Ethnolinguistics
Father Wilhelm Schmidt SVD (1868-1954) was one of the great linguistic and ethnological information hoarders of the early 20th century. Through the missionary Society of the Divine Word, he coordinated an army of trained fieldworkers who supplied him ...
Floris Solleveld
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This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the Society of Jesus and their linguistic production, but ...
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Much of what we know about the society of Toba peoples in the Bolivian Chaco comes from publications of Franciscan missionaries who interacted with them in the 19th century.
María Belén Carpio, Marcela Mendoza
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The main objective of this article is to briefly illustrate the contribution of Italian sinology in compiling dictionaries of the Chinese language. Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci succeed in compiling a list of words by means of a new transcription ...
Miriam Castorina
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UMA MODALIDADE DE PERGUNTA MISSIONÁRIA
“Comprehension check” is a dialogue which occurs simultaneously to biblical translation for indigenous languages at Summer Institute of Linguistics. During this stage, the missionary verifies, by way of question and answer, the native’s comprehension of ...
Maria Cândida Drumond Mendes Barros
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This paper provides an examination of the effects of contact between Europe and Asia in the early modern period, especially with regard to the exchange of linguistic data and ideas.
Violeta Moretti
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Linguistic Heritage of A. G. Bessonov as a Dialect Monument of Early 20th Century Bashkir
Goals. The article seeks to sum up Bashkir dialect features traced in early 20th century written monuments authored by the Russian scholar and missionary A. G. Bessonov. Results.
Zarema N. Ekba, Ramilya N. Karimova
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