Ex quadam analogia ad nostras linguas: The challenge of describing an isolating language in de Rhodes’ Linguae Annamiticae seu Tunchinensis brevis declaratio (1651)
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The study examines Alexandre de Rhodes’s 1651 Vietnamese grammar Linguae Annamiticae seu Tunchinensis brevis declaratio to show how he grappled with the typological challenges of describing an isolating language within a Graeco–Latin framework and which strategies he used to explain Vietnamese grammatical and syntactic phenomena lacking European equivalents, especially his use of Latin analogies and their purposes. |
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