The Pesky Ablative: Early European Missionaries’ Treatment of Tamil ‘Ablatives’
In their efforts to create accessible pedagogical grammars of Tamil, early missionaries applied the reference model of Latin and Portuguese grammars and other missioners’ works to the nominal and verbal paradigms they constructed of the language. In so doing, they met with difficulties in formulatin...
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/206 |