And he knew our language : missionary linguistics on the Pacific northwest coast
Title:
And he knew our language : missionary linguistics on the Pacific northwest coast
JLCTITLE245:
Marcus Tomalin.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011.
Physical Description:
viii, 203 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9789027246073
9789027286833
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1.Missionary linguistics -- 1.2.The languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast -- 1.3.The Haida language -- 1.3.1.Dialects -- 1.3.2.Orthography -- 1.3.3.Personal pronouns -- 1.3.4.Numeral classifiers -- 1.3.5.Verb morphology -- 1.3.6.Word order -- 1.3.7.Haida linguistics: 1911-present -- 1.4.The Kwak'wala language -- 1.5.The Tsimshian language -- 1.6.Summary -- ch. 2 Culture and contact -- 2.1.Haida Gwaii -- 2.2.Discovery and exploration -- 2.3.The arrival of the missionaries -- 2.4.Disease and demography -- ch. 3 Initial encounters -- 3.1.Explorations -- 3.2.Comparing and contrasting Tsimshian and Haida -- 3.3.The Lord's prayer -- 3.4.The acquirement of the tongue -- 3.5.Preparing the ground -- ch. 4 Analysing and assessing -- 4.1.Language and mission -- 4.2.Hall and Kwak'wala -- 4.3.Harrison and Haida -- 4.4.Phonological associations -- 4.5.The noun phrase domain -- 4.6.The verb phrase domain -- ch. 5 Translating scripture -- 5.1.Mission and translation -- 5.2.The Haida scriptures -- 5.3.Souls and spirits -- 5.4.Social hierarchies and power structures -- 5.5.Ideology and dialogue -- ch. 6 Anthropological approaches -- 6.1.A strange relationship -- 6.2.The influence of the missionaries -- 6.3.The influence of the anthropologists -- 6.4.Exploring shamanism -- 6.5.Consequences -- ch. 7 Conclusion.