TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomalin,Marcus
TI  - "And he knew our language": Missionary Linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast 
SN  - 9789027286833
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Language arts
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - This ambitious and ground-breaking book examines the linguistic studies produced by missionaries based on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America (and particularly Haida Gwaii) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive use of unpublished archival materials, the author demonstrates that the missionaries were responsible for introducing many innovative and insightful grammatical analyses. Rather than merely adopting Graeco-Roman models, they drew extensively upon studies of non-European languages, and a careful exploration of their scripture translations reveal the origins of the Haida sociolect that emerged as a result of the missionary activity. The complex interactions between the missionaries and anthropologists are also discussed, and it is shown that the former sometimes anticipated linguistic analyses that are now incorrectly attributed to the latter
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/6ab20cdc-b65a-4eba-a0d2-d79cfc7c71db
ER  -