Missionary Linguistics in New France : A Study of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Descriptions of American Indian Languages / Victor Egon Hanzeli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanzeli, Victor Egon, author.

Series:

Janua linguarum. Series maior ; 29.

Janua Linguarum. Series Maior ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians--Languages--History--17th century.

Indians.

Indians of North America--Missions--New France.

Indians of North America.

Indians--Languages--History--18th century.

Algonquian languages.

Iroquoian languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. THE HISTORICAL CONTINUUM OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE

II. THE MISSIONARY LINGUISTS OF NEW FRANCE

III. THE GRAMMATICAL TRAINING OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES

IV. FIELD WORK OF THE MISSIONARIES: LEARNING AND USE OF THE ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES

V. INDIAN LANGUAGES IN THE PRINTED PUBLICATIONS OF THE MISSIONARIES

VI. OJIBWA-ALGONKIN PHONOLOGY

VII. MORPHOLOGY

VIII. CONCLUSIONS

Appendix A: "Principes de la langue Algonquine", MS 12

Appendix Β: Excerpts from Nicolas' Algonkin Grammar, MS 14

Appendix C: Grammar Notes from "Préceptes, phrases et mots de la langue Algonquine outaouoise pour un missionaire nouveau", by Louis André, MS 15

Appendix D : A Bibliographical List of Unpublished Manuscript Grammars, Dictionaries and Other Linguistica Written by French Missionaries of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries For the Algonquian and Iroquoian Languages

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9783111349114

311134911X

OCLC:

979592353