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• Title:And he knew our language : missionary linguistics on the Pacific northwest coast / Marcus Tomalin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Tomalin, Marcus.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PM1271 .T66 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Haida language--Discourse analysis.
  Haida Indians--Languages.
  Indians--Languages--History.
  Indians of North America--Missions--British Columbia--Haida Gwaii.
  
• Description:203 pages : map ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of linguistics ; v. 116.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9789027246073 (hb : alk. paper)
  9027246076 (hb : alk. paper)
  9789027286833 (eb)
  9027286833 (eb)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
  1.1. Missionary linguistics
  1.2. languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast
  1.3. Haida language
  1.3.1. Dialects
  1.3.2. Orthography
  1.3.3. Personal pronouns
  1.3.4. Numeral classifiers
  1.3.5. Verb morphology
  1.3.6. Word order
  1.3.7. Haida linguistics: 1911-present
  1.4. Kwak'wala language
  1.5. Tsimshian language
  1.6. Summary
  ch. 2 Culture and contact
  2.1. Haida Gwaii
  2.2. Discovery and exploration
  2.3. arrival of the missionaries
  2.4. Disease and demography
  ch. 3 Initial encounters
  3.1. Explorations
  3.2. Comparing and contrasting Tsimshian and Haida
  3.3. Lord's prayer
  3.4. acquirement of the tongue
  3.5. Preparing the ground
  ch. 4 Analysing and assessing
  4.1. Language and mission
  4.2. Hall and Kwak'wala
  4.3. Harrison and Haida
  4.4. Phonological associations
  4.5. noun phrase domain
  4.6. verb phrase domain
  ch. 5 Translating scripture
  5.1. Mission and translation
  5.2. Haida scriptures
  5.3. Souls and spirits
  5.4. Social hierarchies and power structures
  5.5. Ideology and dialogue
  ch. 6 Anthropological approaches
  6.1. strange relationship
  6.2. influence of the missionaries
  6.3. influence of the anthropologists
  6.4. Exploring shamanism
  6.5. Consequences
  ch. 7 Conclusion.