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4th International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, 8-12 March, 2006, Valladolid, Spain.
| Location: | Spain |
| Conference Date: | 2006-03-08 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-10-08 |
| Announcement ID: |
148081 |
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After the discovery of the New World the Europeans began to establish their hegemony in a new continent. European expansion, colonisation and christianization of a large number and variety of Amerindian tribes was accompanied by the study and recording of the native languages of the Americas. In the same period, Christian missionary activities escalated in Asia, especially the Far East, and in Russia, and a little later in Africa. In the early 19th century, the Pacific became a new "America" for missionary linguistics. This congress aims to outline the state of research done in the field. The subjects are to some extent limited in time (focusing primarily on the period 1492-1850) but not in space. This conference aims particularly at inter-relating grammars written in different languages (Latin, Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Dutch, etc.), by missionaries of different orders (Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits, etc.), and in different continents. We wish to 'globalise' the discipline, crossing national and linguistic frontiers in order to create new views and to open new horizons. See background for more information.
Organizers: Professor Emilio Ridruejo
Departamento de Lengua Española
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Universidad de Valladolid
Plaza del Campus, s.n.
47005 Valladolid, España
ridruejo@fyl.uva.es
Otto Zwartjes
University of Amsterdam
Romance Linguistics
Spuistraat 134
1012 VB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
O.J.Zwartjes@uva.nl
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