Anchieta Grammarian: the ecology of language contact in Portuguese America and medial and final [b] and [p] phonemes in Tupinambá
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Missionary Linguistics, Tupinology, GrammatographyAbstract
The article consists of a historiographical study of the art of grammar of the most used language on the coast of Brazil, whose author was the missionary and humanist S. José de Anchieta (1534-1597). The subject of this study is the sixteenth-century grammarian’s description of the metaplasms related to the medial and final [b]- and [p]-phonemes in the Tupinambá language, one of the subjects of the second chapter of his missionary grammar (ANCHIETA, 1595, ZWARTJES, 2011). Our study is based on the theoretical foundation of the historiography of linguistics, through the models of Konrad Koerner (1996) and Pierre Swiggers (2013), and interdisciplinary with the ecolinguistics (COUTO, 2007), through the concept of language contact ecology, to analyse the grammatical description. As a method for working with the selected corpus, we applied textual criticism, using three editions of the grammar: the editio princeps of 1595, the German translation by Platzmann, the Grammar of the Brazilian Language of 1874, and the most recent edition by Armando Cardoso of 1990.
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