Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus, Ph.D. (2005), Leiden University. She has published books and papers concerning Peruvian languages, including Eighteenth Century Xebero (Lincom, 2016).Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez, Ph.D. (2012), Universidad de Valladolid. She is a lecturer of Spanish language and culture at the University of Amsterdam and a lecturer of Spanish linguistics at Utrecht University. She has published on missionary linguistics, lexicography and translation of languages from the Philippines and the Americas.Liesbeth Zack, Ph.D. (2009), University of Amsterdam. She is an assistant professor of Arabic language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on the history of Egyptian Arabic and co-edited Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic (Brill, 2012).Otto Zwartjes, Ph.D. (1995), University of Nijmegen, is full professor History of Linguistics and Historical Linguistics of the Romance languages at the Université de Paris, Laboratoire “Histoire des Théories Linguistiques”. He has published extensively on al-Andalus (Love Songs, poetry) and Missionary Linguistics (John Benjamins).

• PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Mesoamerica1 “The Beginning of Times” in Two Texts of Preachment from New Spain (Sixteenth Century)Pilar Máynez, Mercedes Montes de Oca and Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna2 Reviving Words: Methodological Implications and Digital Solutions for Editing and Corpus-Building of Colonial K’iche’ DictionariesFrauke Sachse and Michael Dürr3 Wide-Lensed Approaches to Missionary Linguistics: The Circulation of Knowledge on Amerindian Languages through Sixteenth-Century Spanish Printed GrammarsZanna Van Loon and Andy Peetermans4 Between Grammars and Dictionaries: The ‘Tratado de las partículas’ (Treatise on Particles) in Diego de Basalenque’s Work on MatlatzincaOtto ZwartjesPart 2 South America5 Were There Ever Any Adjectives? The Recognition of the Absence of an Autonomous Adjective Class in Tupi-Guarani as Demonstrated in the Earliest Missionary GrammarsJustin Case6 Chinchaysuyu Quechua and Amage Confession Manuals: Colonial Language and Culture Contact in Central PeruSabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz and Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus7 Prosodia da Língua, an Unpublished Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Dictionary of Língua Geral AmazônicaWolf Dietrich8 Patagonian Lexicography (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez and Alejandra Regúnaga9 Language Contacts of PukinaKatja Hannß10 Puquina Kin TermsArjan Mossel, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Simon van de Kerke and Willem F.H. Adelaar11 The Representation of the Velar Nasal in Colonial Grammars and Other Pre-modern Sources on the Languages of the Central Andean RegionMatthias UrbanIndex

Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus, Ph.D. (2005), Leiden University. She has published books and papers concerning Peruvian languages, including Eighteenth Century Xebero (Lincom, 2016).Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez, Ph.D. (2012), Universidad de Valladolid. She is a lecturer of Spanish language and culture at the University of Amsterdam and a lecturer of Spanish linguistics at Utrecht University. She has published on missionary linguistics, lexicography and translation of languages from the Philippines and the Americas.Liesbeth Zack, Ph.D. (2009), University of Amsterdam. She is an assistant professor of Arabic language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on the history of Egyptian Arabic and co-edited Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic (Brill, 2012).Otto Zwartjes, Ph.D. (1995), University of Nijmegen, is full professor History of Linguistics and Historical Linguistics of the Romance languages at the Université de Paris, Laboratoire “Histoire des Théories Linguistiques”. He has published extensively on al-Andalus (Love Songs, poetry) and Missionary Linguistics (John Benjamins).

• PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Mesoamerica1 “The Beginning of Times” in Two Texts of Preachment from New Spain (Sixteenth Century)Pilar Máynez, Mercedes Montes de Oca and Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna2 Reviving Words: Methodological Implications and Digital Solutions for Editing and Corpus-Building of Colonial K’iche’ DictionariesFrauke Sachse and Michael Dürr3 Wide-Lensed Approaches to Missionary Linguistics: The Circulation of Knowledge on Amerindian Languages through Sixteenth-Century Spanish Printed GrammarsZanna Van Loon and Andy Peetermans4 Between Grammars and Dictionaries: The ‘Tratado de las partículas’ (Treatise on Particles) in Diego de Basalenque’s Work on MatlatzincaOtto ZwartjesPart 2 South America5 Were There Ever Any Adjectives? The Recognition of the Absence of an Autonomous Adjective Class in Tupi-Guarani as Demonstrated in the Earliest Missionary GrammarsJustin Case6 Chinchaysuyu Quechua and Amage Confession Manuals: Colonial Language and Culture Contact in Central PeruSabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz and Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus7 Prosodia da Língua, an Unpublished Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Dictionary of Língua Geral AmazônicaWolf Dietrich8 Patagonian Lexicography (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez and Alejandra Regúnaga9 Language Contacts of PukinaKatja Hannß10 Puquina Kin TermsArjan Mossel, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Simon van de Kerke and Willem F.H. Adelaar11 The Representation of the Velar Nasal in Colonial Grammars and Other Pre-modern Sources on the Languages of the Central Andean RegionMatthias UrbanIndex

Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus, Ph.D. (2005), Leiden University. She has published books and papers concerning Peruvian languages, including Eighteenth Century Xebero (Lincom, 2016).Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez, Ph.D. (2012), Universidad de Valladolid. She is a lecturer of Spanish language and culture at the University of Amsterdam and a lecturer of Spanish linguistics at Utrecht University. She has published on missionary linguistics, lexicography and translation of languages from the Philippines and the Americas.Liesbeth Zack, Ph.D. (2009), University of Amsterdam. She is an assistant professor of Arabic language and culture at the University of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on the history of Egyptian Arabic and co-edited Middle Arabic and Mixed Arabic (Brill, 2012).Otto Zwartjes, Ph.D. (1995), University of Nijmegen, is full professor History of Linguistics and Historical Linguistics of the Romance languages at the Université de Paris, Laboratoire “Histoire des Théories Linguistiques”. He has published extensively on al-Andalus (Love Songs, poetry) and Missionary Linguistics (John Benjamins).

• PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Mesoamerica1 “The Beginning of Times” in Two Texts of Preachment from New Spain (Sixteenth Century)Pilar Máynez, Mercedes Montes de Oca and Julio Alfonso Pérez Luna2 Reviving Words: Methodological Implications and Digital Solutions for Editing and Corpus-Building of Colonial K’iche’ DictionariesFrauke Sachse and Michael Dürr3 Wide-Lensed Approaches to Missionary Linguistics: The Circulation of Knowledge on Amerindian Languages through Sixteenth-Century Spanish Printed GrammarsZanna Van Loon and Andy Peetermans4 Between Grammars and Dictionaries: The ‘Tratado de las partículas’ (Treatise on Particles) in Diego de Basalenque’s Work on MatlatzincaOtto ZwartjesPart 2 South America5 Were There Ever Any Adjectives? The Recognition of the Absence of an Autonomous Adjective Class in Tupi-Guarani as Demonstrated in the Earliest Missionary GrammarsJustin Case6 Chinchaysuyu Quechua and Amage Confession Manuals: Colonial Language and Culture Contact in Central PeruSabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz and Astrid Alexander-Bakkerus7 Prosodia da Língua, an Unpublished Anonymous Eighteenth-Century Dictionary of Língua Geral AmazônicaWolf Dietrich8 Patagonian Lexicography (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)Rebeca Fernández Rodríguez and Alejandra Regúnaga9 Language Contacts of PukinaKatja Hannß10 Puquina Kin TermsArjan Mossel, Nicholas Q. Emlen, Simon van de Kerke and Willem F.H. Adelaar11 The Representation of the Velar Nasal in Colonial Grammars and Other Pre-modern Sources on the Languages of the Central Andean RegionMatthias UrbanIndex