Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez plays a role.
2015 A Contrastive Study of 18th-Century Word-Lists: Translations into some fifty American and Philippine languages Missionary Linguistics world-wide: Theory, practice and politics, pp. 315–333 | Article
At the end of the 18th century Russian Empress Catherine II sent a letter to Spanish King Charles III containing two lists. The first was a list of grammars and vocabularies of American and Asian languages, while the second was a lexical compilation to be translated into as many American and… read more
2014 Lexicography in the Philippines (1600–1800) Historiographia Linguistica 41:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
Spanish missionary lexicography in America and the Philippines is extensive and deserving of detailed research. In the Philippines, from 1600 up to 1898, more than fifty vocabularies were published in thirteen different languages. Alongside these are numerous vocabularies preserved only as… read more
2014 Traducción de términos religiosos en los vocabularios filipinos (1565–1800) Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V: Translation theories and practices, Zwartjes, Otto, Klaus Zimmermann and Martina Schrader-Kniffki (eds.), pp. 273–294 | Article
The lexicographical production of the missionaries in the Philippines has been abundant and rich over the past centuries. During the early years of conquest, decisions about the use of religious terms in dialogues and texts written for the purpose of spreading Christianity had to be made. The Third… read more
2009 El Calepino Ilocano (c.1797) del P. Vivar: Innovaciones lexicográficas y política traductora Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography, Zwartjes, Otto, Ramón Arzápalo Marín and Thomas C. Smith-Stark (eds.), pp. 249–272 | Article
There is a general lack of knowledge in the Spanish-Philippine linguistic sources. My aim in this paper then is to present the works written on Ilocano by the Augustinian friars from the sixteenth until the nineteenth century, with particular focus on the late seventeenth-century manuscript work by… read more