John Eliot, The Indian Grammar Begun (1666)

Date

1666

Author

John Eliot Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

The Indian grammar begun, or, An essay to bring the Indian language into rules for the help of such as desire to learn the same, for the furtherance of the Gospel among them

Publication place

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Publisher

Marmaduke Johnson

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

Nantick

Summary

Natick language, illustrated throughout the grammar, generally by the part of speech of word-entries.

Language

headwords: English and Natick

Word-group

type: alphabetical

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: Wosketomp, Man. Wosketompaog. (b3r)

Wing

E514

Criticisms

Cowan, William. "John Eliot's Indian Grammar." Matériaux pour une Histoire des Théories Linguistique. Eds. Sylvain Auroux and others. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille III, n.d. 293-300. view record
Guice, Stephen A. "John Eliot and the Massachusett Language." Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers 1990. n.p.: n.p., 1991. 120-37. view record