Christopher Joby
List of John Benjamins publications for which Christopher Joby plays a role.
Articles
2023 Missionary linguistics in the East Indies in the seventeenth century Historiographia Linguistica 50:1, pp. 1–34 | Article
In recent years, there has been increased academic interest in missionary linguistics. However, whereas much has been written on Spanish missionary linguistics, above all in the Americas, relatively little has been published on Dutch missionary linguistics. This article aims to address this… read more
2021 Revisions to the Siraya lexicon based on the original Utrecht Manuscript: A case study in source data Historiographia Linguistica 48:2/3, pp. 177–204 | Article
Linguistic historiography analyzes how linguistic knowledge has been acquired, stored, used and diffused. This article examines what can happen if linguists rely on copies of source data rather than the source data itself. It takes as a case study linguistic data from Siraya, a now-extinct… read more