Gramática da Lingua geral do Brazil: Manuscrito anônimo de 1750 Universidade de Coimbra No. 69 Transcrição, edição comentada e análise linguística

Wolf Dietrich

Gramática da Lingua geral do Brazil: Manuscrito anônimo de 1750 Universidade de Coimbra No. 69 Transcrição, edição comentada e análise linguística

Authors

Wolf Dietrich

Romanisches Seminar

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3548-2527

Keywords:

Missionary Linguistics, Tupí-Guaraní, Common language, Portuguese, Language contact, Language change, 18th century

Synopsis

Here is published for the first time an anonymous Portuguese manscript, which contains the only grammar of Amazonian General Language we know. Not only the author, probably a Franciscan missionary, but also time and place of composition are unknown. It only can be presumed that it was written at the end of the 17th or during the first decades of the 18th century. Manuscript 69 of the University Library of Coimbra (Portugal), which is edited here, is a copy of a lost original. It includes the grammar and a dictionary of the same language, which is still unpublished.
The transcription of the grammar is accompanied by a large number of linguistic comments, all in Portuguese, preceded by a philological and a linguistic introduction as well. It is followed by a more detailed linguistic study about the role Amazonian General Language played in the history of language change. A sketch of a historical phonology and grammar is included.

226 pages

Permalinks
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-61958582142
DOI: 10.17879/61958572488

ISBN
978-3-8405-0309-2

Language
Portuguese

Author Biography

Wolf Dietrich, Romanisches Seminar

Professor of Romance Linguistics at the University of Münster, Institute of Romance Philology from 1973 to 2006. Since then he is professor emeritus.

Wolf Dietrich’s research focuses on historical linguistics as well as synchronic linguistics (tense, aspect, syntax, word formation). His research comprises in all Romance languages, Latin and Greek, and also South American languages (Tupi-Guarani) languages. Other linguistic areas are contact linguistics and linguistic historiography. He has authored many contributions on these topics in national and international contexts.

Among his publications are El aspecto verbal perifrástico en las lenguas románicas (1983), El idioma chiriguano. Gramática, textos, vocabulario (1986), More evidence on the Internal Classification of Tupi-Guarani Languages (1990), Einführung in die spanische Sprachwissenschaft (together with Horst Geckeler and Volker Noll), 1991 (8th reedition 2025); Griechisch und Romanisch (1995), Einführung in die französische Sprachwissenschaft (together with Horst Geckeler), 1995 (5th reedition 2012); Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico (together with Harald Thun and Haralambos Symeonidis), vol. I (2009), vol. II (2015). Edition of Eugenio Coseriu, Geschichte der Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft (3 vols., 2020-2022) as well as his Einführung in die Phonologie für Romanisten 2023)).