Index of Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. Contents IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Saints, nobility, and other heroes. Colonial place-naming as part of the European linguistic heritage 13
7. “The making of Greenland” – Early European place names in Kalaallit Nunaat 43
8. Colonial place-names in Italian East Africa (AOI) (with additional data from Tripoli). The linguistic heritage of colonial practice 75
9. Linguistic missionary heritage. Capuchin missionary Father Laurentius and his unpublished German-Chuukese dictionary 93
10. Positioning by naming: Constructing group affiliation in a colonial setting 115
11. Third-hand colonial linguistics: Adolphe Dietrich’s comparative study of Indian Ocean Creoles 139
12. Spanish-Guarani diglossia in colonial Paraguay: A language undertaking 153
13. Construction of (transcontinental) railways as a means of colonization. A corpus-based analysis on the German colonial discourse in postcolonial perspective 169
14. The Raj English in historical lexicography 191
15. Anglo-Norman: Language contact and obsolescence 219
16. Index of Authors 245
17. Index of Languages 249
18. Index of Subjects 251
19. Index of Toponyms 253