Title: And he knew our language : missionary linguistics on the Pacific northwest coast /
Authors: Tomalin, Marcus
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Haida language Discourse analysis.; Haida Indians Languages.; Indians Languages History.; Indians of North America Missions British Columbia Haida Gwaii.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- 1.1. Missionary linguistics -- 1.2. The languages of the Pacific Northwest Coast -- 1.3. The 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. The Kwak'wala language -- 1.5. The Tsimshian language -- 1.6. Summary -- ch. 2 Culture and contact -- 2.1. Haida Gwaii -- 2.2. Discovery and exploration -- 2.3. The 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. The Lord's prayer -- 3.4. The 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. The noun phrase domain -- 4.6. The verb phrase domain -- ch. 5 Translating scripture -- 5.1. Mission and translation -- 5.2. The 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. A strange relationship -- 6.2. The influence of the missionaries -- 6.3. The influence of the anthropologists -- 6.4. Exploring shamanism -- 6.5. Consequences -- ch. 7 Conclusion.