Themes

Suggested Topics:

• Selection of the described language varieties. Regional varieties, standard varieties. Lingua francas and their implementation.
• The European descriptive tradition and its influence on the linguistic works of the missionaries.
• Lexical development and evangelizing ideology.
• The proposals, implementation, and development of orthography with the Latin alphabet for Amerindian languages.
• Missionary text production in aboriginal languages. Problems in translation and stylistic development.
• Debates about the use of aboriginal languages in evangelization.
• Textual genres and written styles in Amerindian languages.
• The training of indigenous writers.
• Contributions about other aspects of Missionary Linguistics, which could involve other geographical regions (China, Japan, Africa, etc.) and/or subsequent time periods (up to the 19th century).