Francisco Cañes (1730–1795) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary and grammarian, author of Gramática arábigo-española (1775), a grammar of colloquial Arabic.[1]

Francisco Cañes
Born1730 (1730)
Died1795 (aged 64–65)
NationalitySpanish
Occupation(s)missionary and grammarian

Cañes was based at the Spanish Franciscan College in Damascus, where he came in 1757. Two separate editions of his Arabic grammar were published, one in 1775 and one in 1776.[2]

Works edit

  • Gramatica arabigo-española, vulgar, y literal: Con un diccionario arabigo-español, en que se ponen las voces mas usuales para una conversacion familiar, con el Texto de la Doctrina Cristiana en el idioma arabigo, Madrid, 1775

References edit

  1. ^ Zwartjes, Otto (2007). "Inflection and government in Arabic according to Arabic missionary grammarians from Damascus (XVIIIth century): grammars at the crossroads of two systems?". In Ditters, Everhard; Motzki, Harald (eds.). Approaches to Arabic Linguistics: Presented to Kees Versteegh on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday. BRILL. pp. 210–12. ISBN 978-90-04-16015-6.
  2. ^ Zwartjes, Otto (2007). "Agreement asymmetry in Arabic according to Spanish missionary grammarians from Damascus". In Zwartjes, Otto; James, Gregory; Alonso, Emilio Ridruejo (eds.). Missionary Linguistics III / Lingüística misionera III. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 274–6. ISBN 978-90-272-4602-8.