Otto Zwartjes

List of John Benjamins publications for which Otto Zwartjes plays a role.

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Subjects History of linguistics | Language documentation

Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics

Edited by Otto Zwartjes and E.F.K. Koerner †

Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 36:2/3 (2009) vii, 292 pp.
Subjects History of linguistics

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The main purpose of this paper is to analyze Spanish linguistic terms and their translations into Arabic in Pedro de Alcalá’s (c.1455–post 1505) Vocabulista arauiga en letra castellana, the first printed missionary Spanish–Arabic dictionary, which appeared together with his Arte para ligeramente… read more | Article
There is no need to repeat earlier complaints that the historiography of missionary linguistics was being neglected, since the situation has changed considerably sine the last decades of the past century. The first decade of the 21st century in particular has witnessed a veritable explosion of… read more | Article
Review article
Villanueva, Rebeca Barriga and Otto Zwartjes. 2009. Bibliography of Thomas Cedric Smith-Stark, 1973–2009. Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 213–221
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Zwartjes, Otto. 2009. Biographical Notice on Thomas Cedric Smith-Stark (1948–2009). Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 207–211
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The paper explores three grammars of two indigenous languages of Brazil written in Portuguese during the colonial period: two grammars of the Tupi language composed by José Anchieta (1534–1597) in 1595 and Luís Figueira (1575–1643) in 1621 (2nd ed., 1687), and one grammar of the Kiriri language,… read more | Article