In:Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia
Edited by Otto Zwartjes and Paolo De Troia
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 130] 2021
► pp. 217–230
How Greek is the Graeco-Latin model?
Some critical reflections on a key concept in missionary linguistic historiography through Alexandre de Rhodes’s early description of Vietnamese (1651)
Published online: 2 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130.09van
https://doi.org/10.1075/sihols.130.09van
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The “Graeco-Latin model”: A historical perspective
- 3.An early description of the Vietnamese tonal system: Alexandre de Rhodes’s Brevis declaratio
- 4.By way of conclusion: Some afterthoughts
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