| Titlu: | The Toponymy of Norfolk Island, South Pacific: The Microcosm of Nepean Island |
| Autor: | Joshua Nash |
| Publicația: | Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciences |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55014-521-2 |
| Editori: | Wolfgang Ahrens, Sheila Embleton, André Lapierre |
| Editura: | York University |
| Locul: | Toronto, Canada |
| Anul: | 2009 |
| Rezumat: | Norfolk Island, South Pacific provides linguists a near laboratory case study in naming, language contact and environmental management. The two languages spoken on the island, Norf’k – the language of the descendents of the Pitcairners – and English, are both used in placenaming. This study analyses the toponyms of Nepean Island, a small uninhabitable island 800 metres south of Norfolk, and poses the question of whether Nepean is a microcosm of naming behaviour for the rest of the Norfolk macrocosm. For its size Nepean Island offers a large number of toponyms and suggests a toponymic template applicable to the Norfolk archipelago as a whole. This analysis offers some results one is likely to get from doing toponymic research on uninhabited island environments. |
| Limba: | engleză |
| Linkuri: |  pdf  html |
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