When the West meets the East : early Western accounts of the languages of the Sinosphere and their impact on the history of Chinese linguistics / edited by Barbara Meisterernst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meisterernst, Barbara, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ; Bd. 59.

Asien- und Afrikastudien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin ; Band 59

Language:

Chinese

Subjects (All):

Chinese language--East Asia.

Chinese language.

China--Languages.

China.

Languages in contact--China.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 p.).

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Introduction

Barbara Meisterernst

Part One: Taiwanese linguistics

Taiwanese Southern Min /Hokkien manuscripts and Missionary linguistics

Chapter 1: In Search for the Dialectal Variants of Hokkien Based on the Early Bilingual Hokkien-Spanish Dictionary

Chinfa Lien

Chapter 2: Language contact, wishful thinking or bad fieldwork?How to make sense of consistent language documentation in missionary sources

Henning Klöter

Austronesian languages in Taiwan

Chapter 3: West meets East. The influence of Dutch clergymen in 17th century Taiwan

Alexander Adelaar

Chapter 4: The 18th century Siraya

songs from "A Tour of Duty on the Raft in the Taiwan Sea"

Izumi Ochiai and Chao-Kai Shih

Part Two: Chinese linguistic traditions

Chapter 5: Bazin, Edkins and Bi Huazhen's Yǎnxù cǎotáng bǐjì (Notes on the abundant heritage of the thatched cottage)

Alain Peyraube and Lin Xiao

Part Three: Early Western Accounts of the Chinese language and Chinese linguistics

Chapter 6: Cultural Interaction Studies and Linguistic Research

Keiichi Uchida

Chapter 7: Transposing Linguistic Categories and Terminology: Interactions between Western and Chinese Linguistic Traditions

Mariarosaria Gianninoto

Chapter 8: Georg von der Gabelentz and Chinese and East Asian Linguistics

Part Four: Early West-East contacts on the Silk Road and their impact on linguistic studies

Chapter 9: Chinese in Sogdian script and Sogdian in Chinese characters

Yutaka Yoshida

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Meisterernst, Barbara When the West meets the East

ISBN:

9783447394314

3447394315

Publisher Number:

99995520434

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