The 6th International Conference on Missionary Linguitics

From the 16th(Tue) March to the 19th(Fri) March, 2010
ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan)

GICAS JSPS

Program

The program is definitive
last update 2010/03/15 10:24:20 JST


bundled abstracts (3.7MB)


Mar 16 morning : general
  chair : Altman, Cristina (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)

  1. 10:15 Opening words : Toyoshima, Masayuki (ILCAA)
    Opening remarks : Altman, Cristina (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)

  2. 10:30 Assunção, Carlos (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
    Misionación portuguesa y contacto interlingüístico en Oriente

  3. intermission

  4. 11:15 Báez Montero, Inmaculada (Universidad de Vigo, Spain) & Pérez Rodríguez, Rosa
    Aproximación a la metalingüística misionero-colonial en varias gramáticas filipinas

  5. 11:45 Sueiro Justel, Joaquín (Universidad de Vigo, Spain) & Alonso, Miguel Cuevas
    Clasificación de las partes de la oración en la tradición misionero-colonial : el caso de las gramáticas filipinas

Mar 16 afternoon : general / digitalization
  chair : Bhaskararao, Peri (ILCAA)

  1. 14:00 Farfán Flores, José Antonio (CIESAS, Mexico) & Zwartjes, Otto (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    A comparative perspective on honorificity in selected missionary Jesuit grammars

  2. 14:30 Van Hal , Toon (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
    On the Emergence of the First Printed Grammar of Sanskrit. Johann Ernst Hanxleden S.J. (1681-1732) and Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo O.C.D. (1748-1806), Pioneers of Indology.

  3. 15:00 Ishikawa, Hiroki (ILCAA)
    The Origin and History of MS779 in the District Archive of Braga: New Light on its Importance in the Study of Northern Ethiopian History

  4. intermission

  5. 15:45 Toyoshima,Masayuki (ILCAA)
    Stages in typesetting Japanese Characters in the Jesuit mission press in the late 16th centuries

  6. 16:15 Hernández-Hernández, Esther (CSIC, Spain)
    Vocabulary, Calepin or thesaurus? Remarks on Seventeenth-century Bilingual Dictionaries of Spanish and Indigenous languages of America

Mar 17 morning : Africa / Oceania
  chair : Ishikawa, Hiroki (ILCAA)

  1. 10:00 Legère, Karsten (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
    JL Krapf and mid 19th century work on East African languages

  2. 10:30 Fernandes, Gonçalo (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)
    A Arte da Lingua de Angola (Lisboa 1697) de Pedro Dias, S. J. -- a primeira descrição gramatical da língua dos Ambundos

  3. 11:00 Zimmermann, Klaus (University of Bremen, Germany)
    Making missionary dictionaries of indigenous languages in 16th century Mexico (Nahuatl) and 19th and 20th century Austronesia (Chamorro): a comparison.

Mar 17 afternoon : China
  chair : James,Gregory (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

  1. 13:30 Ksenia Kozha, Markina (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
    Russian Missionaries of the XIX c.: independent linguistic approach to the East

  2. 14:00 Vande Walle, Willy F. (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
    Western Missionaries' Contributions to Chinese Linguistics in the Seventeenth Century.

  3. 14:30 Kuong, Io'Kei Joaquim (University of Macau, Macau) & Mauck, Simon (Georgetown University, USA)
    Comparison of Étienne Fourmont’s Linguae Sinarum Mandarinicae with his contemporaries’ linguistic work on Mandarin Chinese

  4. intermission

  5. 15:15 Klöter, Henning (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
    Western missionaries and Chinese languages: -- Language choices, social contexts and intellectual traditions

  6. 15:45 Casacchia,George, (Naples Oriental University, Italy) & Gianninoto, M. (Université de Grenoble, France)
    The Chinese grammars of Latin language in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

  7. 16:15 Sabbatini, Paolo (Italian Culture Institute, Shanghai, China)
    Matteo Ricci and the introduction of Italian music in China during the Ming Dynasty

  8. 16:45 Yoshikawa, Masayuki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
    English learning books in the late nineteenth century Hong Kong

Mar 18 morning : India (esp. Konkani)
  chair : Maruyama, Toru (Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan)

  1. 10:00 Pytlowany, Anna (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
    The first Western grammar of Sinhalese: a Protestant approach to the art of describing a language.

  2. 10:30 James,Gregory (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
    The 1554 Cartilha: Early missionary choices for a Christian lexis for Tamil

  3. intermission

  4. 11:15 Naik, Pratapananda (Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr, India)
    Contribution of missionaries to Konknni linguistics

  5. 11:45 Zwartjes, Otto (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    The typology of syntax according to Missionary grammars of the Portuguese tradition (16th-18th century) in India : -- The description of ergativity

  6. 12:15 Fonseca, Maria do Céu (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
    Estudios portugueses sobre la gramática de la lengua concani

Mar 18 afternoon : Japan
  chair : Toyoshima,Masayuki (ILCAA)

  1. 14:00 Murata, Masami (Salesian Polytechnic, Japan)
    Study of "Appunti Di Grammatica Giapponese" produced by the Salesians of Don Bosco

  2. 14:30 Tashiro-Perez, Eliza Atsuko (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
    El término partícula e su concepto en el japonés - persistencia de las ideas de los Jesuittos

  3. 15:00 Kishimoto, Emi (International Christian University, Japan)
    Comparison among dictionaries written by the Jesuits in Japan: Dictionarium Latino Lusitanicum, ac Iaponicum (1595) and Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam (1603–1604)

  4. intermission

  5. 15:45 Orii, Yoshimi (Nihon University, Japan)
    Translation Technique and Policy in Symbolo da Fee (1611) : Recently Discovered material from Jesuit Mission Press in Japan

Mar 19 morning : general
  chair : Zwartjes, Otto (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  1. 10:00 Fernández Rodríguez, Rebeca (Universida de Valladolid, Spain)
    Aspectos lexicográficos de los vocabularios Filipinos (1600-1800)

  2. 10:30 Bolkvadze,Tinatin (Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, Georgia)
    Georgian Dictionary (1629) and Georgian Grammar (1643) Prepared and Printed by “Congregatio de Propaganda Fide”

  3. intermission

  4. 11:15 Döhla, Hans-Jörg (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
    Animacy, definiteness, specificity and referentiality in missionary grammars

  5. 11:45 Murshed, Sikder Monoare (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
    Missionary initiatives: printed first linguistic script of Bangladesh

Mar 19 afternoon : Latin-America
  chair : Zimmermann, Klaus (University of Bremen, Germany)

  1. 13:30 Alexander-Bakkerus, Astrid (University of Amsterdam, ACLC, The Netherlands)
    The grammar of Xebero and the trilingual vocabulary Spanish-Quechua-Xebero (Additional Ms. 25,323, Britsh Library, London, UK).

  2. 14:00 Marçalo, Maria João (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
    On theories of languages: Aspects of phonetics and syntax in "Arte da Grammatica da Lingua Brasilica da Naçam Kiriri", de Luis Vincencio Mamiani

  3. 14:30 Altman, Cristina (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
    Nouns, verbs, and the Tupinamba / Nheengatu descriptive tradition

  4. intermission

  5. 15:15 Coelho, Olga Ferreira (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
    El aprovechamiento descriptivo del concepto de ‘caso’ en las gramáticas de Dias (1697) y Mamiani (1699)

  6. 15:45 Ragi, Roberta (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
    La manifestación de la tradición gramatical quechua y la política lingüística del Perú colonial (1560-1586)

  7. 16:15 Monzón, Cristina (Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico)
    Unity and correferentiality in Friar Juan Bautista de Laguna’s Arte, Diccionario and religious text, (XVI century)

  8. 16:45 Bedell, George (Payap University, Thailand)
    Relatives in Japanese and Quechua

closing

Closing remarks : Zwartjes, Otto (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Closing words : Kishimoto, Emi (International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan)


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