What is it about?
Its a review concerning a book by Joshua Nash that investigates the formal and informal ways that places in island landscape get names, and considers the processes that lead to either their suvival or disuse over time.
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Why is it important?
The review is about a book that is timely in the study of English creoles, placenaming practices and island histories.
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This page is a summary of: Nash, 2013. Insular toponymies. Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo
Island, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, June 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jpcl.32.1.07cla.
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