Oceanic voices - european quills : the early documents on and in chamorro and rapanui / edited by Steven Roger Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Steven R., editor, author.

Series:

Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik ; Band 4.

Koloniale und postkoloniale Linguistik = Colonial and postcolonial linguistics ; Band 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rapa Nui language--Historiography--Congresses.

Rapa Nui language.

Chamorro language--Historiography--Congresses.

Chamorro language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Akademie Verlag, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) of the Austronesian tongues to inspire linguistic investigation within greater Oceania. These pioneering efforts are honored in nine articles which document, translate, chronicle, describe and analyze the earliest relics from these two island cultures. This collection of articles reveals fundamental insights not only into earlier stages of both Chamorro and Rapanui but also into the very discipline of linguistic historiography in one of Earth's humanly richest and most fascinating regions.

"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft an zwei ozeanischen Extremen. Das im nordwestlichen Pazifik gesprochene Chamorro Guams und der Nördlichen Marianen hat als erste austronesische Sprache das Interesse der Sprachforschung gefunden (16. Jhdt.), während das auf der Osterinsel im südöstlichen Pazifik gesprochene Rapanui einer der Nachzügler ist (19. Jhdt.). Im vorliegenden Band werden die Pionierarbeiten zu beiden Sprachen in neun Artikeln gewürdigt, die die frühesten europäischen Sichtungen dieser beiden Inselkulturen dokumentieren, übersetzen, beschreiben und analysieren. Es werden grundlegende Einsichten nicht nur in die frühen Stadien des Chamorro und des Rapanui vermittelt, sondern auch in die Disziplin der Historiographie der Sprachwissenschaft in einer der kulturell reichsten und faszinierendsten Regionen der Erde.

Contents:

Front Matter

Sources of the Old Rapanui language of Easter Island

Esteban Rodríguez' vocabulary of the language of Guam (1565)

Translating Father Sanvitores' Lingua Mariana

The Chamorro-Worterbuch by Georg Fritz - a contrastive description of the editions 1904 and 1908

Chamorro morphophonology in the Grammar and Dictionary by Georg Fritz

The Chaifi. A fairy tale from the Marianas, narrated by Georg Fritz. A commented re-edition. Part 1: Background, intercultural and intertextual aspects

The Chaifi. A fairy tale from the Marianas, narrated by Georg Fritz. A commented re-edition. Part 2: Linguistic aspects

H. Costenoble's work on Chamorro (re-)edited

Liquids where there shouldn't be any. What hides behind the orthographic post-vocalic tautosyllabic <r> and <l> in early texts in and on Chamorro

Back Matter

Notes:

Proceedings of the conference "Foundation Colloquium of ChiN-Chamorro Linguistics, An International Network" that was convented in Bremen, Germany, on 27 September 2009 during the historic "Festival of Langauges" (17 September-9 October 2009) organized by the Institute of General and Applied Linguistics (IAAS) at the University of Bremen.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783050064116

3050064110

OCLC:

979688736