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Miegunyah: From bark huts to grand houses and a Fiji cane farm

Authors :
Jan Tent
Paul Geraghty
Source :
Australian Journal of Linguistics. 40:428-443
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2020.

Abstract

Indigenous loanwords comprise an important component of the lexicons of the Englishes of former British colonies. Often these words are used as placenames, which are in turn transported across the ...

Subjects

Subjects :
050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language
biology
Agroforestry
05 social sciences
biology.organism_classification
Language and Linguistics
Indigenous
Linguistics
030507 speech-language pathology & audiology
03 medical and health sciences
Geography
Bark (sound)
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Cane
0305 other medical science

Details

ISSN :
14692996 and 07268602
Volume :
40
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Australian Journal of Linguistics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........fef616e631b77e209565d48ff626cca3

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