A Creole lexicon : architecture, landscape, people
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 meanin
eBook, English, ©2004
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ©2004
Terminology
1 online resource (xxx, 269 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780807138328, 0807138320
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Preface (Edwards and Kariouk); Acknowledgments; Introduction (Edwards with Kariouk); How to Use This Lexicon; Abbreviations; Creole Lexicon; Topical Indexes; Appendix: A Componential Analysis of New Orleans Vernacular Core Modules; Bibliography