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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2021 Tamil verb stems may be inclusive of a voice morpheme that encodes the degree of agency of the verb. Hence, using Paramasivam’s (1979) terminology, these kinds of verbs are paired verbs of which one is the affective and the other its effective ...
Cristina Muru
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Missionary position: The grammar of Philippine colonial sexualities as a locus of translation
TranscUlturAl, 2015 In this paper, I shall examine how Spanish missionaries during the colonial period described the sexual mores of early Filipinos in missionary grammars and vocabularies, and how such description should also be regarded as a locus of translation.
Marlon James Sales
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2018 Spanish missionary Francisco Varo (1627-1678) is a pioneer in the history of Western and Chinese cross-cultural communication and Chinese Linguistics. His work Arte de la lengua Mandarina (Grammar of the Mandarin Language, written in 1682 and published ...
Zhi Geng 耿直
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Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia
Les carnets d'HTL, 2020 Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth – nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty (extinct) indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages: Matlatzinca, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Purépecha, Zapotec (Mexico); K ...
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American Indian Languages in the Eyes of 17th-Century French and British Missionaries
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2018 This paper examines 17th-century descriptions of Algonquian and Iroquoian languages by French and British missionaries as well as their subsequent reinterpretations.
Kilarski Marcin
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016 In the middle of the XVII century the Discalced Carmelite Padre Vincenzo Maria of Saint Caterina of Siena visited India and, when he returned, drew up his travel account, titled Il Viaggio alle Indie Orientali.
Andrea Drocco
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DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2005 Nos séculos XVI e XVII, jesuítas escreveram gramáticas de duas das línguas indígenas faladas no Brasil colonial: José de Anchieta e Luís Figueira descreveram o tupi antigo em 1595 e ca.
Ronaldo de Oliveira Batista
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Contributions of Cunha Rivara (1809–1879) to the Development of Konkani
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2019 Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara (1809–1879) was a Portuguese physician, professor of philosophy, politician, librarian and secretary of the governor-general of India (1855–1870).
Gonçalo Fernandes
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Colonialism and Missionary linguistics
Les carnets d'HTL, 2015 Missionaries played a central role in establishing colonialism (intellectual conquest) inasmuch as they described the "exotic languages" they encountered as an instrument of their missionary work. The language standardization they worked towards often came with Eurocentric manipulation.
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In the name of Nida: Institutionalizing Evangelical Thought through Translation Studies
Mutatis MutandisThis paper critically revisits the symbolic recognition of Eugene Nida in translation studies in the light of his involvement in missionary organisations and missionary translator training.
Rafael Schögler, Christina Korak
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