A Creole Lexicon: Architecture, Landscape, PeopleLSU Press, 2004 - 304 pagina's Throughout Louisiana's colonial and postcolonial periods, there evolved a highly specialized vocabulary for describing the region's buildings, people, and cultural landscapes. This creolized language -- a unique combination of localisms and words borrowed from French, Spanish, English, Indian, and Caribbean sources -- developed to suit the multiethnic needs of settlers, planters, explorers, builders, surveyors, and government officials. Today, this historic vernacular is often opaque to historians, architects, attorneys, geographers, scholars, and the general public who need to understand its meanings. With A Creole Lexicon, Jay Edwards and Nicolas Kariouk provide a highly organized resource for its recovery. Here are definitions for thousands of previously lost or misapplied terms, including watercraft and land vehicles, furniture, housetypes unique to Louisiana, people, and social categories. |
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... African House, Melrose Plantation Funderburk African House 4 4. 5-Bay Center-Hall American Cottage Funderburk American cottage 7 5. Ancres Brockway ancre 7 6. Louisiana Prairie Landscape Eggart anse 8 7. Armoire acadienne Funderburk ...
... African languages in the colony, only to be transported back to the mother country to become part of its popular ... African languages of xxi Recto RunningHead Introduction the newly imported slaves, the color “red” included light brown ...
... African-influenced French spoken in at least four areas of the state: (1) the “German and Acadian Coast” parishes of St. James and St. John the Baptist; (2) Pointe Coupée Parish; (3) St. Martin Parish; and (4) the Bayou Lacombe and ...
... African immigrants to Louisiana from the war-torn French colony of Saint Domingue injected their own distinctive varieties of French Creole into the amalgam—a powerful source of new vocabulary and new perspectives. In this lexicon we ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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