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Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III
AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE General Editor E.F.K. KOERNER Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung Schützenstrasse 18, D-10117 Berlin Series III – STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES
Advisory Editorial Board Cristina Altman (São Paulo); Lia Formigari (Rome) Gerda Haßler (Potsdam); John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) Barbara Kaltz (Aix-en-Provence); Douglas A. Kibbee (Urbana, Ill.) Hans-Josef Niederehe (Trier); Emilio Ridruejo (Valladolid) Otto Zwartjes (Amsterdam)
Volume 111
Otto Zwartjes, Gregory James and Emilio Ridruejo (eds.) Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III Morphology and Syntax Selected papers from the Third and Fourth International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics, Hong Kong/Macau, 12–15 March 2005, Valladolid, 8-11 March 2006
Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III Morphology and Syntax Selected papers from the Third and Fourth International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics, Hong Kong/Macau, 12–15 March 2005, Valladolid, 8–11 March 2006
edited by Otto Zwartjes University of Amsterdam
Gregory James
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Emilio Ridruejo University of Valladolid
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Missionary linguistics III = Lingüística misionera III : morphology and syntax : selected papers from the third and fourth International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics, Hong Kong/Macau, 12-15 March 2005, Villadolid, 8-11 March 2006 / edited by Otto Zwartjes, Gregory James, Emilio Ridruejo. p. cm. -- (Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, ISSN 0304-0720; v. 111) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Language and languages--Study and teaching--History--Congresses. 2. Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology--Study and teaching--History--Congresses. 3. Grammar, Comparative and general-Syntax--Study and teaching--History--Congresses. 4. Missions--Linguistic work--Congresses. P53 .I527 2005a 418--dc22 2007060775 ISBN 978 90 272 4602 8 (alk. paper) © 2007 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company • P.O. Box 36224 • 1020 me Amsterdam • The Netherlands John Benjamins North America • P.O. Box 27519 • Philadelphia, PA 19118-0519 • USA
CONTENTS / ÍNDICE
Foreword and Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part I: General Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres (Madrid): Nebrija y los modelos de los misioneros lingüistas del náhuatl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Part II. North America / Norteamérica Pierre Swiggers (Leuven): “Bones and Ribs”: The treatment of morphosyntax in John Eliot’s Grammar of the Massachusett Language (1666) 41 Part III. New Spain / Nueva España José Antonio Flores Farfán (México, D.F.): La variación lingüística a través de las Artes mexicanas (con especial énfasis en el náhuatl) . . . . 59 Cristina Monzón (Zamora): Morphology in the 16th-Century Artes of Tarascan: The case of the suffix -tsi or -ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Part IV. South America / América del Sur Beatriz Christino (São Paulo): Nominal and Verbal Morphology in the Vocabulario Conivo and in the Diccionario Sipibo . . . . . . . . .