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Missionary Grammars and Dictionaries of Chinese: The contribution of seventeenth century Spanish Dominicans
Otto Zwartjes
[Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 131] 2024
► pp. 38–128

Chapter 2
The Arte (Marsh 696)

Article outline
  • 2.1Facsimile edition, transliteration and English translation
  • 2.2Descriptive analysis of the Arte
    • 2.2.1Introduction
    • 2.2.2Tonadas and tone diacritics
    • 2.2.3Non-tonal diacritics: The spiritus asper and the ‘puntillo’
      • The first ‘manner’, or ‘difference’ of the second class. The Aspiration mark and ‘gutturals’
    • 2.2.4The second mode
    • 2.2.5The third mode: The little dot (‘puntillo’)
    • 2.2.6The fourth ‘mode’
    • 2.2.7The fifth ‘mode’
    • 2.2.8Initials
    • 2.2.9Finals
    • 2.2.10The final section (Appendix II): Mandarin and Hokkien
    • 2.2.11The ‘Puntillo’ in other scripts: Baybayin and Manchu
      • Baybayin
  • 2.3Reconstruction of the missing parts of the Arte
    • 2.3.1References to the Arte in the Jagiel. manuscript
    • 2.3.2References to the ‘arte viejo’ in Francisco Varo’s grammar
      • Conclusion
  • 2.4Comparative analysis
    • 2.4.1Comparison with earlier works
      • The Arte (Marsh 696) compared with Dominican sources describing Hokkien in the Philippines
      • The Bocabulario
      • The Jesuits in China and a brief history of Western romanization of Chinese before Marsh 696
      • Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628)
      • The romanizations in Marsh 696 (Arte and Dictionary) and DIAZ1 and DIAZ2?
      • Alternative spellings in Jagiel. ~ no alternative spellings in Marsh
      • Vietnam and Japan
      • Concluding remarks
    • 2.4.2Marsh 696 compared with the Arte of Francisco Varo
      • Macrostructure
      • Definitions, and (semi-) metalinguistic terminology compared
  • 2.5Conclusion
  • Notes