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- Title
"MY CLOSE APPLICATION TO THE LANGUAGE": William Henry Collison and Nineteenth-Century Haida Linguistics.
- Authors
Tomalin, Marcus
- Abstract
The article offers information regarding the gradual revival of church missionaries in the cultural development of Canada. Many aspects of their activity on the First Nations have been explored in numerous recent publications and such complex phenomena results to the establishment of residential schools, the role of women in parish life, and the specific practices that characterized different varieties of indigenous Christianity. The earliest studies of Haida inevitably failed to recognize some of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic patterns and it explores the language focused work of William Henry Collison, the first Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary to Haida Gwaii. Collison had produced linguistic analyses and translations, which he passed on his immediate successors.
- Subjects
CANADA; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; culture; LINGUISTIC analysis; COMPARATIVE grammar; CHURCH; CHURCH &; the world; CHRISTIANITY; CHRISTIAN biography; HENRY, William
- Publication
BC Studies, 2007, Issue 155, p93
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article