The Routledge Handbook of the History of Descriptive Linguistics

Notes on the contributors 0 Reconstructing the history of language description: Introduction to the Handbook Part I: Theoretical foundations and descriptive practices 1 The history of descriptive linguistics: Introduction 2 The birth and development of Greek grammar Part II: Africa 3 The historiography and linguistic analysis of Kikongo language studies by missionaries of the Congregation de Saint-Esprit (1888-1956) 4 Berber descriptive linguistics in colonial Algeria and Morocco (1858-1932) 5 The linguistic description of Amharic (ethiosemitic): A historical survey 6 A history of descriptive appropriation of Bamanankan in French Western Africa (1825-1929) Part III: The Americas 7 Languages known only by the skin of their teeth III.1 North America 8 Descriptive linguistics of North America 9 Writing before knowing: The linguistic works of Fr. de la Brosse as the culmination of Jesuit linguistic descriptions in New France 10 Professionalising descriptive linguistic practice: Franz Boas and the languages of the Pacific Northwest 11 200 years of Patwin language description and survivance 12 Centuries of Iroquoian linguistics: Priorities and perspectives III.2: Meso-America 13 P'urhepecha lexicography: The first 300 years 14 Mixtec grammars from Vice-royal New Spain: The quest for adequate language descriptions 15 Interpreting colonial orthographies in Zapotec 16 The rebirth of descriptive studies of indigenous languages during the Porfiriato in Oaxaca and southern Puebla, Mexico 17 Documenting the Chatino languages of Oaxaca, Mexico: Legacies and prospects III.3: South America 18 Descriptive linguistics and the Central Andean languages: Past, present and future 19 Written Muysca: Orthographic regimes and the hidden phonology of a colonial language 20 Tupi-Guarani linguistics: Shifting models and assumptions in the description of complex person indexing systems 21 From Tapuia to Macro-Jê: History of the description of the languages of the interior 22 Language description in the Chaco 23 Language description in the eighteenth-century Northern Chaco: The case of Old Zamuco Part IV: Asia 24 Maronite contributions to Syriac and Arabic linguistics (16th-18th centuries) 25 The Chinese language as described by Westerners: Script and grammar 26 Dutch analysis of Austronesian languages in Indonesia and Taiwan in the 17th century 27 Grammatical description of the Nepal Himalayas: 19th-20th centuries 28 The interplay of grammatical traditions in descriptions of Japanese (1600-1900) 29 The grammatical description of Bahnar, Sedang and Jarai: A historical perspective on descriptive practices in Vietnam (1850-1979) Part V: Australia and Oceania 30 Early schools of Australian linguistic description 31 A history of Aranda language lexicography 32 Two centuries of describing Tahitian: From Latin-based to emic categories Part VI: Europe 33 The history of the Basque grammatical tradition from 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century 34 140 years of describing Ingrian: decline of the language and rise of descriptive studies 35 The short history of the study of Ubykh Part VII: Pidgins and Creoles 36 On early descriptions of Creole languages and descriptive linguistics Index rerum Index nominum Index of languages and glottocodes