The Routledge Handbook of the History of Descriptive Linguistics

Notes on the contributors

0 Reconstructing the history of language description: Introduction to the Handbook

Otto Zwartjes and Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez

Part I: Theoretical foundations and descriptive practices

1 The history of descriptive linguistics: Introduction

Willem de Reuse

2 The birth and development of Greek grammar

Lionel Dumarty                     

Part II: Africa

3 The historiography and linguistic analysis of Kikongo language studies by missionaries of the Congregation de Saint-Esprit (1888–1956)

Sebastian Dom

4 Berber descriptive linguistics in colonial Algeria and Morocco (1858–1932)

Maarten Kossmann

5 The linguistic description of Amharic (ethiosemitic): A historical survey

Ronny Meyer

6 A history of descriptive appropriation of Bamanankan in French Western Africa (1825–1929)

Cécile Van den Avenne

Part III: The Americas

7 Languages known only by the skin of their teeth

Lyle Campbell  

III.1: North America

8 Descriptive linguistics of North America

Catherine Fountain and Marcin Kilarski

9 Writing before knowing: The linguistic works of Fr. de la Brosse as the culmination of Jesuit linguistic descriptions in New France

Renée Lambert-Bretière and Jean-François Cottier

10 Professionalising descriptive linguistic practice: Franz Boas and the languages of the Pacific Northwest

Michael Dürr

11 200 years of Patwin language description and survivance

Lewis C. Lawyer

12 Centuries of Iroquoian linguistics: Priorities and perspectives

Karin Michelson

III.2: Meso-America

13 P’urhepecha lexicography: The first 300 years

Kate Bellamy

14 Mixtec grammars from Vice-royal New Spain: The quest for adequate language descriptions

Michael Dürr

15 Interpreting colonial orthographies in Zapotec

George Aaron Broadwell

16 The rebirth of descriptive studies of indigenous languages during the Porfiriato in Oaxaca and southern Puebla, Mexico

Michael W. Swanton

17 Documenting the Chatino languages of Oaxaca, Mexico: Legacies and prospects

Justin D. McIntosh, Emiliana Cruz and Anthony C. Woodbury 

III.3: South America

18 Descriptive linguistics and the Central Andean languages: Past, present and future

Nicholas Q. Emlen and Matthias Urban

19 Written Muysca: Orthographic regimes and the hidden phonology of a colonial language

Diego Fernando Gómez

20 Tupi-Guarani linguistics: Shifting models and assumptions in the description of complex person indexing systems

Fernando O. de Carvalho

21 From Tapuia to Macro-Jê: History of the description of the languages of the interior

Andrés Salanova and Andrey Nikulin

22 Language description in the Chaco

Javier Carol, Paola Cúneo and Andrés Pablo Salanova

23 Language description in the eighteenth-century Northern Chaco: The case of Old Zamuco

Luca Ciucci

Part IV: Asia

24 Maronite contributions to Syriac and Arabic linguistics (16th–18th centuries)

Margherita Farina

25 The Chinese language as described by Westerners: Script and grammar

Mariarosaria Gianninoto

26 Dutch analysis of Austronesian languages in Indonesia and Taiwan in the 17th century

Christopher Joby

27 Grammatical description of the Nepal Himalayas: 19th–20th centuries

Aimée Lahaussois and Selin Grollmann

28 The interplay of grammatical traditions in descriptions of Japanese (1600–1900)

Sven Osterkamp

29 The grammatical description of Bahnar, Sedang and Jarai: A historical perspective on descriptive practices in Vietnam (1850–1979)

Thị Kiều Ly Phạm and Văn Hiệu Nguyễn

Part V: Australia and Oceania

30 Early schools of Australian linguistic description

Clara Stockigt

31 A history of Aranda language lexicography

David Moore

32 Two centuries of describing Tahitian: From Latin-based to emic categories

Jacques Vernaudon and Alexandre François

Part VI: Europe

33 The history of the Basque grammatical tradition from 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century

Ricardo Gómez-López

34 140 years of describing Ingrian: decline of the language and rise of descriptive studies

Fedor Rozhanskiy

35 The short history of the study of Ubykh

Viacheslav A. Chirikba

Part VII: Pidgins and Creoles

36 On early descriptions of Creole languages and descriptive linguistics

Bernhard Hurch and Sarah Melker

Index rerum

Index nominum

Index of languages and glottocodes

Biography

Otto Zwartjes is a Professor of Linguistics at the Université Paris-Cité and a member of the Laboratoire HTL.

Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Language Science, Utrecht University, and a member of the Laboratoire HTL.