Early Western Analyses of the Languages of Central Asia and India: Tradition and Renewal in Missionary Linguistics KU Leuven
From the 16th century onwards, European missionaries documented and described numerous non−European languages (many of which are now extinct or on the verge of extinction). Concentrating on the analysis of Central−Asian and Indian languages by 17th− and 18th−century missionaries, the present project seeks to chart the missionaries' attitudes towards unfamiliar, non−European languages and their views on theoretical issues such as linguistic ...