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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... Valdman, Thomas Klingler, Margaret Marshall, and Kevin Rottet, it contains more than six thousand entries. This extensive lexicography promised to provide far more information on Louisiana's spoken French than we could have collected ...
... (Valdman et al. 1998:3). The Cane River area of Natchitoches Parish also had black French Creole speakers; a few survive there. Afro-French Creole is characterized by distinctly nonstandard grammatical features such as genderless nouns ...
... Valdman et al. 1998:7). For main entries, the genders of modifiers are not specified. Thus, in the entry auvent de protection (Fn, m), the word auvent (“roof extension”) is masculine and its gender is specified; the gender of the ...
... (Valdman et al. 1998:63). See arrachis, terre défrichée. abattoir (F, FC n,m). Fabattre, to strike down. A slaughterhouse. Louisiana: 1) A country butchering. F boucher, a butcher; boucherie, a communal butchering shared among neighbors ...
... (Valdman et al. 1998:269). 2) In late 18th and 19th-cent. New Orleans: an architectural advertisement for the sale of a piece of property to be auctioned. These posters were publically displayed at the Saint Louis Church, later at a ...
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Topical Indexes | 207 |
A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules | 253 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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