BIC SubjectsLanguage: history & general works
The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West
Edited by Otto Zwartjes
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 51:1-3 (2024) vi, 385 pp.
Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese: The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans
Otto Zwartjes
This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their efforts to understand and disseminate knowledge of the Chinese language during this historical period. Ample attention is dedicated to the evolution of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 131] 2024. xii, 381 pp.
Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia
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… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130] 2021. xii, 296 pp.
Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600
Edited by Anneli Luhtala and Mark E. Amsler
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 44:2/3 (2017) vi, 270 pp.
Missionary Linguistics world-wide: Theory, practice and politics
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 42:2/3 (2015) iv, 257 pp.
Language Documentation: Practice and values
Edited by Lenore A. Grenoble and N. Louanna Furbee
Language documentation, also often called documentary linguistics, is a relatively new subfield in linguistics which has emerged in part as a response to the pressing need for collecting, describing, and archiving material on the increasing number of endangered languages. The present book details… read more[Not in series, 158] 2010. xviii, 340 pp.