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How Greek is the Graeco-Latin model?

Some critical reflections on a key concept in missionary linguistic historiography through Alexandre de Rhodes’s early description of Vietnamese (1651)
© 2021 John Benjamins

© 2021 John Benjamins

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
Missionary Linguistics VI
This chapter is in the book Missionary Linguistics VI
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130.09van

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
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