Otto Zwartjes
List of John Benjamins publications in which Otto Zwartjes is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0302-5160 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9781
Book series
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences
General Editor: Jean-Michel Fortis, Klaas Willems and Otto Zwartjes
ISSN 0304-0720
Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese: The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans
Otto Zwartjes
This monograph aims to shed light on the linguistic endeavors and educational practices employed by 17th century Spanish Dominicans in their efforts to understand and disseminate knowledge of the Chinese language during this historical period. Ample attention is dedicated to the evolution of… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 131] 2024. xii, 381 pp.
The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West
Edited by Otto Zwartjes
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 51:1-3 (2024) vi, 385 pp.
Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia
This is the sixth volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by missionaries in Asia. This volume presents research into the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Tamil. It provides a selection of papers which primarily concentrate on the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 130] 2021. xii, 296 pp.
Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V: Translation theories and practices. Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Bremen, 28 February - 2 March 2012
Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Klaus Zimmermann and Martina Schrader-Kniffki
The object of this volume is the study of missionary translation practices which occur within a colonial context of political domination and spiritual conquest. Missionary translation becomes especially manifest in bilingual ethnographic descriptions, in (bilingual) catechisms and in the… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 122] 2014. xii, 350 pp.
Portuguese Missionary Grammars in Asia, Africa and Brazil, 1550-1800
Otto Zwartjes
From the 16th century onwards, Europeans encountered languages in the Americas, Africa, and Asia which were radically different from any of the languages of the Old World. Missionaries were in the forefront of this encounter: in order to speak to potential converts, they needed to learn local… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 117] 2011. xiv, 359 pp.
Missionary Linguistics IV / Lingüística misionera IV: Lexicography. Selected papers from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Mérida, Yucatán, 14-17 March 2007
Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Ramón Arzápalo Marín and Thomas C. Smith-Stark
This fourth volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on lexicography. It contains a selection of papers derived from the Fifth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics held in Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico), 14th–17th March 2007. As with the previous three volumes (2004, on general issues,… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 114] 2009. vi, 340 pp.
Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and E.F.K. Koerner †
Special issue of Historiographia Linguistica 36:2/3 (2009) vii, 292 pp.
Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III: Morphology and Syntax. Selected papers from the Third and Fourth International Conferences on Missionary Linguistics, Hong Kong/Macau, 12–15 March 2005, Valladolid, 8–11 March 2006
Edited by Otto Zwartjes, Gregory James and Emilio Ridruejo
This third volume on Missionary Linguistics focuses on morphology and syntax. It contains a selection of papers derived from the international conferences on missionary linguistics held in Hong Kong/Macau and Valladolid. As with the previous two volumes (2004, on general issues, and 2005, on… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 111] 2007. vi, 357 pp.
Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II: Orthography and Phonology. Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, São Paulo, 10–13 March 2004
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Cristina Altman
This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of the European colonial enterprises along the period 1550–1850, described dozens of autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks to their… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 109] 2005. vi, 292 pp.
Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera: Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13–16 March 2003
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Even Hovdhaugen
When the first European missionaries arrived on other continents, it was decided that the indigenous languages would be used as the means of christianization. There emerged the need to produce grammars and dictionaries of those languages. The study of this linguistic material has so far not… read more[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 106] 2004. vi, 288 pp.
2024 Exploring Chinese compound words in the anonymous Breve compendio del vocabulario de compuestos en lengua mandarina and other Western missionary dictionaries The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West, Zwartjes, Otto (ed.), pp. 90–129 | Article
This article analyzes the anonymous and undated dictionary Breve compendio del vocabulario de compuestos en lengua mandarina, a work that was most likely written by a Dominican. The Dominicans not only compiled bilingual dictionaries translating from Spanish to Chinese but also from Chinese to… read more
2024 The history of Chinese linguistics in East and West: Introduction The History of Chinese Linguistics in East and West, Zwartjes, Otto (ed.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
2021 André Palmeiro’s Epistola (Macau 8/V 1632) cum paradigmate Orationis Dominicae Pater Noster in lingua Sinica, Japonica, Annamitica: A linguistic analysis Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia, Zwartjes, Otto and Paolo De Troia (eds.), pp. 1–76 | Chapter
2014 The Missionaries’ Contribution to Translation Studies in the Spanish Colonial Period: The mise en page of translated texts and its functions in foreign language teaching Missionary Linguistics V / Lingüística Misionera V: Translation theories and practices, Zwartjes, Otto, Klaus Zimmermann and Martina Schrader-Kniffki (eds.), pp. 1–50 | Article
2014 More on “Arabic Linguistic Terminology in Pedro de Alcalá” Historiographia Linguistica 41:2/3, pp. 247–297 | Article
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze Spanish linguistic terms and their translations into Arabic in Pedro de Alcalá’s (c.1455–post 1505) Vocabulista arauiga en letra castellana, the first printed missionary Spanish–Arabic dictionary, which appeared together with his Arte para ligeramente… read more
2012 The Historiography of Missionary Linguistics: Present state and further research opportunities Historiographia Linguistica 39:2/3, pp. 185–242 | Article
There is no need to repeat earlier complaints that the historiography of missionary linguistics was being neglected, since the situation has changed considerably sine the last decades of the past century. The first decade of the 21st century in particular has witnessed a veritable explosion of… read more
2010 Toward a History of Missionary Work by German-Speaking Jesuits in 17th and 18th Century Latin America Historiographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 145–163 | Review article
2009 Bibliography of Thomas Cedric Smith-Stark, 1973–2009 Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 213–221 | Article
2009 Biographical Notice on Thomas Cedric Smith-Stark (1948–2009) Quot homines tot artes: New Studies in Missionary Linguistics, Zwartjes, Otto and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 207–211 | Article
2007 Agreement asymmetry in Arabic according to Spanish missionary grammarians from Damascus (18th century) Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III: Morphology and Syntax, Zwartjes, Otto, Gregory James and Emilio Ridruejo (eds.), pp. 273–304 | Article
2004 Introduction Missionary Linguistics/Lingüística misionera: Selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13–16 March 2003, Zwartjes, Otto and Even Hovdhaugen (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Miscellaneous
2002 The description of the indigenous languages of Portuguese America by the Jesuits during the colonial period: The impact of the Latin grammar of Manuel Álvares Historiographia Linguistica 29:1/2, pp. 19–70 | Article
The paper explores three grammars of two indigenous languages of Brazil written in Portuguese during the colonial period: two grammars of the Tupi language composed by José Anchieta (1534–1597) in 1595 and Luís Figueira (1575–1643) in 1621 (2nd ed., 1687), and one grammar of the Kiriri language,… read more