Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin: A Collection of Words
Language: English
Published by The University of Alabama Press, 2008
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William A Read (1869-1962) was a renowned linguist whose career included 38 years as a professor of English at Louisiana State University. This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931).
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- Title
- Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin: A Collection of Words
- Author
- William A Read
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0817355057
- ISBN 13
- 9780817355050
His writings spanned five decades and have been instrumental across a wide range of academic disciplines. Most importantly, Read devoted a good portion of his research to the meaning of place names in the southeastern United States—especially as they related to Indian word adoption by Europeans.
This volume includes his three Louisiana articles combined: Louisiana: Louisiana Place-Names of Indian Origin (1927), More Indian Place-Names in Louisiana (1928), and Indian Words (1931). Joining Alabama's reprint of Indian Places Names in Alabama and Florida Place Names of Indian Origin and Seminole Personal Names, this volume completes the republication of the southern place name writings of William A. Read.
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George M. Riser is a retired internist, Louisiana native, and a vocational archaeologist and historian of Louisiana's past.
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