Missionary Linguistic Studies from Mesoamerica to Patagonia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents the results of in-depth studies of grammars, vocabularies, and religious texts, dating from the sixteenth - nineteenth century. The researches involve twenty indigenous Mesoamerican and South American languages, including: Nahuatl (Mexico), Pukina (Peru); Tehuelche (Patagonia).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9789004424609
• ISBN-10: 9004424601
• Artikelnr.: 58528184

Autorenporträt

Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus, Ph.D. (2005), Leiden University. She has published books and papers concerning Peruvian languages, including Eighteenth Century Xebero (Lincom, 2016). Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez, Ph.D. (2012), Universidad de Valladolid. She is a lecturer of Spanish language and culture at the University of Amsterdam and a lecturer of Spanish linguistics at Utrecht University. She has published on missionary linguistics, lexicography and translation of languages from the Philippines and the Americas. Liesbeth Zack, Ph.D. (2009), University of Amsterdam. She is an assistant professor of Arabic language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on the history of Egyptian Arabic and co-edited Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic (Brill, 2012). Otto Zwartjes, Ph.D. (1995), University of Nijmegen, is full professor History of Linguistics and Historical Linguistics of the Romance languages at the Université de Paris, Laboratoire "Histoire des Théories Linguistiques". He has published extensively on al-Andalus (Love Songs, poetry) and Missionary Linguistics (John Benjamins).