- Part I. Historical Context
- I. The Setting: The Paravas of the “Fishery Coast” in the 16th Century
- II. Missionary Activities
- IIa. Francis Xavier
- IIb. Fr. Henriques: Missionary and Linguist
- III. The Arte: Historical Studies from the Text
- IV. The Arte: As Document in the Cultural Encounter
- V. Confidence
- Part II. Translation of the Arte da Lingua Malabar
- Alphabet and Pronunciation
- The Declensions of the Nouns
- First Declension
- Second Declension
- Third Declension
- Fourth Declension
- Fifth Declension
- First Class
- Second Class
- Third Class
- Honorific Form
- General Rules for Declining Easily
- Concerning Adjective Nouns
- The Pronouns
- Concerning Participles
- Present Participle
- Preterit Participle
- Negative Future Participle
- The Participle which Has the Likeness of Future Participle
- Conjugation of Verbs
- First Conjugation
- Second Conjugation
- [Third Conjugation]
- Fourth Conjugation
- Fifth Conjugation
- Sixth Conjugation
- Seventh Conjugation
- Eighth Conjugation
- Ninth Conjugation
- Personal Verbs
- First Conjugation
- Present Tense
- The Preterit
- The Affirmative Future
- The Imperative
- Negative Future
- The Infinitive
- Rules
- Verbs of the First Conjugation
- Second Conjugation
- Present Tense
- The Preterit
- Affirmative Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Summary—Second Conjugation
- Third Conjugation
- Present—First Class
- Affirmative Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Present—Second Class
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Summary—Third Conjugation
- Present—First Class
- Fourth Conjugation
- Present
- Preterite
- Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Summary—Fourth Conjugation
- Fifth Conjugation
- Fifth Conjugation—First Class
- Present
- Preterite
- Future
- Imperative
- Infinitive
- Fifth Conjugation—Second Class
- Present
- Preterite
- Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Summary—Fifth Conjugation—First Class
- Summary—Fifth Conjugation—Second Class
- Fifth Conjugation—First Class
- Sixth Conjugation
- Present
- Preterite
- Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Summary—Sixth Conjugation
- Seventh Conjugation
- Present
- Preterite
- Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Summary—Seventh Conjugation
- Eighth Conjugation
- Present
- Preterite
- Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Summary—Eighth Conjugation
- Ninth Conjugation
- Present
- Preterite
- Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Summary—Ninth Conjugation
- First Conjugation
- Impersonal Verbs, or Concerning Irrational Things
- Present
- Preterite
- Affirmative Future
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Impersonal Verbs Not Derived from Personal Verbs
- Present
- Preterite
- Affirmative Future
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Concerning the Passive Verbs
- Present
- Preterite
- Affirmative Future
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Passive Verbs of the First Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Second Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Third Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Fourth Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Fifth Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Sixth Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Seventh Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Eighth Conjugation
- Passive Verbs of the Ninth Conjugation
- The Verb ‘To Be’
- Present
- Preterite
- The Future avê
- Imperative
- Negative Future
- Infinitive
- Sentences
- The Construction of This Malabar Language
- Some Ways of Speaking in This Language
- Conclusion
- Part III. Organization of the Arte
- Orthography
- Nouns
- The Five Declensions of Nouns
- First Declension
- Second Declension
- More Examples
- Honorific Form
- General Rules for Declining
- Adjective Nouns
- Pronouns
- The Five Declensions of Nouns
- Participles
- Verbs
- Personal Verbs
- The Concept of Verb and Tense
- Deriving the Tenses
- First Conjugation
- Present Tense
- The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and the 9th Conjugations
- Impersonal Verbs
- The Passive Verbs
- The Verb “to be”
- Personal Verbs
- Sentences
- Conclusion
- Part IV. Afterword
- Uniqueness
- Ingenuity and Innovation
- Pragmatics
- Departure from Traditional Grammars
- Letters and Sounds
- Types of Words
- Morpho-phonemics
- Case
- Attitude toward Language Usage
- Challenges
- Pronunciation/Phonology
- Morphology
- Grammatical Concepts
- Foundation for Later Analysis
- Society
- Conclusion
- Into the Future
- Part V. Appendices
- A. Vowels
- B. Consonants
- C. Nominal Suffixes
- D. Verbs
- Personal Verbs
- Verbs of the 1st Conjugation
- Verbs of the 2nd Conjugation
- Verbs of the 3rd Conjugation
- Verbs of the 4th Conjugation
- Verbs of the 5th Conjugation
- Verbs of the 6th Conjugation
- Verbs of the 7th Conjugation
- Verbs of the 8th Conjugation
- Verbs of the 9th Conjugation
- Impersonal Verbs
- Passive Verbs
- Personal Verbs
- E. Tenses and Subtenses
- F. Tamil Words
- G. The Literary Works of Henrique Henriques, S. J.
- Bibliography
- Index
HARVARD ORIENTAL SERIES

Harvard Oriental Series 76
The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil
Fr. Henriques' Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History, and Analysis
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