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041 0 $aEnglish
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072 7 $aCFA$2bicssc
100 1 $aTomalin, Marcus$4auth
245 10 $a"And he knew our language" : Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast
260 $bJohn Benjamins Publishing Company$c20110421
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $aThis ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter.
536 $aKnowledge Unlatched
540 $aCreative Commons$fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode$2cc$4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
546 $aEnglish
650 7 $aPhilosophy of language$2bicssc
653 $aLinguistics
653 $aHistory of Linguistics
653 $aMissionary Linguistics
653 $aAnthropology
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856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25987$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication