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Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

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Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

By: Otto Zwartjes

From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local languages. A great wealth of missionary grammars survives from the 16th century onwards. Some of these are precious records of the languages they document, and all of them witness their authors' attempts to develop the methods of grammatical description with which they were familiar, to accommodate dramatically new linguistic features.This book is the first monograph covering the whole Portuguese grammatical tradition outside Portugal. Its aim is to provide an integrated description, analysis and evaluation of the missionary grammars which were written in Portuguese. Between them, these grammars covered a huge range of languages: in Asia, Tamil, four Indo-Aryan languages and Japanese; in Brazil, Kipeá and Tupinambá; in Africa and the African diaspora, Kimbundu and Sena (from the modern Angola and Mozambique respectively).Each text is placed in its historical context, and its linguistic context is analyzed, with particular attention to orthography, the parts of speech system, morphology and syntax. Whenever possible, pedagogical features of the grammars are discussed, together with their treatment of language variation and pragmatics, and the evidence they provide for the missionaries' attitude towards the languages they studied.

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9027246084

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Love Songs from al-Andalus

History, Structure and Meaning of the Kharja

By: Otto Zwartjes

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Love Songs from al-Andalus

History, Structure and Meaning of the Kharja

By: Otto Zwartjes

Love Songs from al-Andalus presents an updated survey of the debates concerning Andalusian strophic poetry and their Kharjas. Attention is focused on the texts themselves and their literary implications as testimonies of the multicultural and multilingual society of al-Andalus. Since languages and alphabets of the three major religions have been used, these texts are studies historically, prosodically, thematically and stylistically and are related to the three literary traditions. One of the novelties of this study is the fact that it has been based upon the most updated edition and interpretations of the texts introducing emendations in over a third of its contents and making obsolete most of the hundreds of previous articles and books on the topic. Another novelty is the fact that stylistic features have been studied according to the Arabic model, casting new light on them. The survey of thematic relationships and the analysis of code-switching phenomena add weight to the conclusions of this research.

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9004624252

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Muwaššaḥ, Zajal, Kharja

Bibliography of Strophic Poetry and Music from al-Andalus and Their Influence in East and West

By: Henk Heijkoop,Otto Zwartjes

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Muwaššaḥ, Zajal, Kharja

Bibliography of Strophic Poetry and Music from al-Andalus and Their Influence in East and West

By: Henk Heijkoop,Otto Zwartjes

This bibliography - intended to be as complete as possible - provides information on written material in 22 languages about muwaššaḥ and zajal (poetical strophic forms in al-Andalus during the Middle Ages) and the kharja (final segment of muwaššaḥ and some zajals), and about their popularity in East and West.

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9047413709

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Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans

By: Otto Zwartjes

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Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans

By: Otto Zwartjes

This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their efforts to understand and disseminate knowledge of the Chinese language during this historical period. Ample attention is dedicated to the evolution of Chinese grammars and dictionaries by these authors. Central to the monograph is the manuscript “Marsh 696”, which comprises a Chinese-Spanish dictionary and a fragmentary Spanish grammar of Mandarin Chinese, a hitherto unknown and unpublished anonymous and undated text entitled Arte de lengua mandarina. This text is probably a fragment of the earliest grammar written by a Westerner of Mandarin Chinese (completed in Manila in c.1641), previously presumed lost. It is presented here as a facsimile, a transcription of the Spanish text and an English translation alongside a detailed linguistic analysis. The historical framework outlined in this monograph spans from the predecessors of Francisco Díaz (1606–1646) around 1620, including the Jesuit linguistic production in mainland China and Early Manila Hokkien sources, to the era wherein Antonio Díaz (1667–1715) finalized his revised version of Francisco Díaz’s dictionary. The monograph scrutinizes these texts in relation to the linguistic contributions of Francisco Varo (1627–1687). Additionally, the monograph incorporates other unpublished texts that are significant for reconstructing the educational curriculum for teaching and learning Chinese by Dominican friars during this period.

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902724684X

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Muwaššah, Zajal, Kharja

Bibliography of Eleven Centuries of Strophic Poetry and Music from Al-Andalus and Their Influence on East and West

By: Henk Heijkoop,Otto Zwartjes

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Muwaššah, Zajal, Kharja

Bibliography of Eleven Centuries of Strophic Poetry and Music from Al-Andalus and Their Influence on East and West

By: Henk Heijkoop,Otto Zwartjes

This bibliography - intended to be as complete as possible - provides information on written material in 22 languages about "muwassa?" and "zajal" (poetical strophic forms in al-Andalus during the Middle Ages) and the "kharja" (final segment of "muwassa?" and some "zajals"), and about their popularity in East and West.

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9004138226

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Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

By: Otto Zwartjes

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Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

By: Otto Zwartjes

From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local languages. A great wealth of missionary grammars survives from the 16th century onwards. Some of these are precious records of the languages they document, and all of them witness their authors’ attempts to develop the methods of grammatical description with which they were familiar, to accommodate dramatically new linguistic features.This book is the first monograph covering the whole Portuguese grammatical tradition outside Portugal. Its aim is to provide an integrated description, analysis and evaluation of the missionary grammars which were written in Portuguese. Between them, these grammars covered a huge range of languages: in Asia, Tamil, four Indo-Aryan languages and Japanese; in Brazil, Kipeá and Tupinambá; in Africa and the African diaspora, Kimbundu and Sena (from the modern Angola and Mozambique respectively).Each text is placed in its historical context, and its linguistic context is analyzed, with particular attention to orthography, the parts of speech system, morphology and syntax. Whenever possible, pedagogical features of the grammars are discussed, together with their treatment of language variation and pragmatics, and the evidence they provide for the missionaries’ attitude towards the languages they studied.

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9027283257

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Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans

By: Otto Zwartjes

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The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans

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Love Songs from Al-Andalus

History, Structure, and Meaning of the Kharja

By: Otto Zwartjes

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Love Songs from Al-Andalus

History, Structure, and Meaning of the Kharja

By: Otto Zwartjes

This study of Andalusian strophic poetry and their "Kharjas" provides an updated survey of the debates on this topic. The texts are studies historically, prosodically, thematically and stylistically and they are related to other literary traditions of the Middle Ages.

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Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

Love Songs from al-Andalus

Love Songs from al-Andalus

Muwaššaḥ, Zajal, Kharja

Muwaššaḥ, Zajal, Kharja

Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

Muwaššah, Zajal, Kharja

Muwaššah, Zajal, Kharja

Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800

Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese

Love Songs from Al-Andalus

Love Songs from Al-Andalus

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