Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. THE HISTORICAL CONTINUUM OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE -- II. THE MISSIONARY LINGUISTS OF NEW FRANCE -- III. THE GRAMMATICAL TRAINING OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES -- IV. FIELD WORK OF THE MISSIONARIES: LEARNING AND USE OF THE ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES -- V. INDIAN LANGUAGES IN THE PRINTED PUBLICATIONS OF THE MISSIONARIES -- VI. OJIBWA-ALGONKIN PHONOLOGY -- VII. MORPHOLOGY -- VIII. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix A: “Principes de la langue Algonquine”, MS 12 -- Appendix Β: Excerpts from Nicolas’ Algonkin Grammar, MS 14 -- Appendix C: Grammar Notes from “Préceptes, phrases et mots de la langue Algonquine outaouoise pour un missionaire nouveau”, by Louis André, MS 15 -- Appendix D : A Bibliographical List of Unpublished Manuscript Grammars, Dictionaries and Other Linguistica Written by French Missionaries of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries For the Algonquian and Iroquoian Languages -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatterweiterlesen