Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and acknowledgements vii
4. André Palmeiro’s Epistola (Macau 8/V 1632) cum paradigmate Orationis Dominicae Pater Noster in lingua Sinica, Japonica, Annamitica 1
5. Part I. China
6. Eligio Cosi’s (OFM; 1818–1885) “Nuovo metodo per scrivere la lingua volgare cinese” and its social impact 79
7. The Jesuits as translators between Europe and China (17th–18th century) 101
8. The Vocabolario Italiano-Cinese of Joseph M. Pruggmayr (OCD; 1713–1791) 129
9. Part II. Japan
10. Politeness in João Rodrigues’s grammars of Japanese 155
11. Romanization in early Japanese Christian texts 175
12. Part III. Vietnam
13. Some remarks on Alexandre de Rhodes’s linguistic works on Vietnamese 189
14. Vietnamese grammars composed by missionaries from the Missions Étrangères de Paris during the 19th century 201
15. How Greek is the Graeco-Latin model? 217
16. Part IV. India
17. Mood and modality in 17th century missionary grammars of Tamil 233
18. On the ‘affinities of Oriental languages’ 265
19. Name index 289
20. Subject index 293