Placenames evidence for NSW Pidgin
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NSW Pidgin is documented from fragmentary source material, and evidence is sparse for its probable nineteenth century spread through Queensland to northern Australia. I adduce another source of data bearing on NSW Pidgin’s formation and spread, that found in placenames. I argue that NSW, and northern Australia too, there are ‘Pidgin placenames’: ones that are neither purely of Indigenous origin, nor entirely imposed by the incoming colonists and settlers. The study considers a NSW Pidgin...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2016 |
Type: | Book chapter |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142170 |
Book Title: | Loss and Renewal : Australian Languages Since Colonisation |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781614518792-011 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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