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- Title
Lipan Apache Placenames of Augustina Zuazua: Some Structural and Discursive Features.
- Authors
Webster, Anthony K.
- Abstract
This paper presents twenty-two Lipan Apache placenames as used by Augustina Zuazua in a narrative to Harry Hoijer concerning Lipan history. Lipan Apache is now considered by most linguists to be largely an extinct language. However these placenames provide a glimpse into the place-naming practices of the Lipan as well as reveal how placenames were discursively used. I analyze the placenames based on the semantic and morphological components of the names. I also look at how the placenames were used in context within the narrative. Finally, I suggest that Zuazua used this narrative and the placenames to comment on the removal of the Lipan Apache from their traditional homeland. The names, then, act as lingering signs of a past homeland.
- Subjects
GEOGRAPHIC names; LIPAN (North American people); APACHE (North American people); ZUAZUA, Augustina; ONOMASIOLOGY; APACHE languages; APACHE names
- Publication
Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 2007, Vol 55, Issue 2, p103
- ISSN
0027-7738
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/nam.2007.55.2.103