Cristina Altman
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cristina Altman is involved.
Book series
ISSN 0304-0720
Title
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.
2021 Review of Koerner (2020): Last Papers in Linguistic Historiography Historiographia Linguistica 48:1, pp. 127–135 | Review
2007 Colonialism, scientific expeditions and linguistics in 19th century Brazil History of Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Kibbee, Douglas A. (ed.), pp. 212–227 | Article
The time and place under analysis, 19th century Brazil, constitutes a privileged moment for the historiographer of linguistics attentive to the methodological requirements of his/her craft. It is an important point in time of reaffirmation of a Brazilian identity and of the increase of interest in… read more
2002 Meeting Vivien Law, Oxford, September 1996 Historiographia Linguistica 29:1/2, pp. 17–18 | Miscellaneous
1999 From 'Insula Vera Crux' to 'Terra Brasiliensis': History, (hi)stories and the historiography of Brazilian linguistics History of Linguistics 1996: Volume 1: Traditions in Linguistics Worldwide, Cram, David, Andrew R. Linn and Elke Nowak (eds.), pp. 71–80 | Chapter
1999 17. Between Structure and History: The search for the specificity and the originality of Brazilian linguistic production The Emergence of the Modern Language Sciences: Studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner, Embleton, Sheila, John E. Joseph and Hans-Josef Niederehe (eds.), pp. 247–260 | Article
1999 The ‘Brazilian Connection’ in the History of American Linguistics: The notebook of Joaquim Mattoso Câmara Historiographia Linguistica 26:3, pp. 355–382 | Article
When mention is made of Brazil in connection with American linguistics, it usually amounts to a reference to the Linguistic Circle of New York, where Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) and Claude Lévi-Strauss (b.1908), who had come from Brazil where he had done ethnological work, met and exchanged ideas.… read more
1996 Historiographia linguistica Folha de Estilo Historiographia Linguistica 23:3, pp. 451–454 | Miscellaneous