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Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 130] 2021
► pp. 217–230

How Greek is the Graeco-Latin model?

Some critical reflections on a key concept in missionary linguistic historiography through Alexandre de Rhodes’s early description of Vietnamese (1651)

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The “Graeco-Latin model”: A historical perspective
  • 3.An early description of the Vietnamese tonal system: Alexandre de Rhodes’s Brevis declaratio
  • 4.By way of conclusion: Some afterthoughts
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 November 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130.09van
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