Title: HIDDEN PLACES AND CREOLE FORMS: NAMING THE BARBUDAN LANDSCAPE∗
Abstract:The decline of fieldwork in human geography in the United States is reflected in place name studies of the last 30 years, which have been founded on maps alone. Research in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles, d...The decline of fieldwork in human geography in the United States is reflected in place name studies of the last 30 years, which have been founded on maps alone. Research in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles, demonstrates the importance of human informants and observations in the field for gathering toponymic information, and shows the axiom that place names alone are evidence of past landscapes and land uses to be unreliable. The study tests some accepted principles of naming against field observations and proposes the significance of creole language and diglossia in the place names of creole speech communities.Read More
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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