Missionary linguistics = Lingüística misionera : selected papers from the First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Oslo, 13-16 March, 2003 / edited by Otto Zwartjes, Even Hovdhaugen
When the first European missionaries arrived on other continents, it was decided that the indigenous languages would be used as the means of christianization. There emerged the need to produce grammars and dictionaries of those languages. The study of this linguistic material has so far not received sufficient attention in the field of linguistic historiography. This volume is the first published collection of papers on missionary linguistics world-wide; it represents the insights of recent research, containing an introduction and papers on methodology, meta-historiography, the historical
