[Discussion] Third International Conference on Missionary Linguistics

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Third International Conference on Missionary Linguistics


The third international conference on missionary linguistics will be 
held from 12 - 15 March 2005 in Hong Kong.

Meeting Description: The Third International Conference on Missionary 
Linguistics concentrates on early-modern descriptions of 
non-Indo-European languages. European expansion, colonisation and 
christianisation was accompanied by the study and recording of the 
native languages.

Latest information: After the discovery of the New World the Europeans 
began to establish their hegemony in a new continent. European 
expansion, colonisation and christianization of a large number and 
variety of Amerindian tribes was accompanied by the study and recording 
of the native languages of the Americas. In the same period, Christian 
missionary activities escalated in Asia, especially the Far East, and in 
Russia, and a little later in Africa. In the early 19th century, the 
Pacific became a new "America" for missionary linguistics. This congress 
aims to outline the state of research done in the field. The subjects 
are to some extent limited in time (focusing primarily on the period 
1492-1850) but not in space. This conference aims particularly at 
inter-relating grammars written in different languages (Latin, Spanish, 
Portuguese, English, French, Dutch, etc.), by missionaries of different 
orders (Dominicans, Franciscans, Jesuits, etc.), and in different 
continents. We wish to 'globalise' the discipline, crossing national and 
linguistic frontiers in order to create new views and to open new horizons.

Organizers: Professor Gregory James

Prof. Otto Zwartjes
Email: O.J.Zwartjes@uva.nl

	Professor Gregory James
Language Centre
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR China

Tel: +852 2358 7878

Email: lcgjames@ust.hk <mailto:lcgjames@ust.hk>
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