TY - BOOK AU - Spiecker-Salazar, Marlies. TI - Perspectives on Philippine languages: five centuries of European scholarship SN - 9789715506496 AV - PL 5503 .Sp43 2012 PY - 2012///];copyright 2012 CY - Quezon City PB - Ateneo de Manila University Press KW - Philippine languages KW - sears N1 - Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of the Philippines, Diliman; Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-321) and index N2 - The first comprehensive history of European studies on Philippine languages, this book gives a synoptic view of studies by Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish linguists from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, placing them in their historical context. It opens up a new field of research in Philippine studies on previously unknown materials in European libraries and archives. (Source: http://www.ateneopress.org) ER -