Transparency Versus Opacity in Aboriginal Placenames
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20086565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Walsh (0000-0002-6441-3635), Michael James Walsh (0000-0003-1919-8312, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Land is a Map (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | ANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.22459/lm.03.2009.03 |
| OpenAlex | W2913552766 |
| ISBN | 9781921536564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
This question arose because of the discrepancy I had noticed between a relatively high propOltion of transparency of about 66 per cent reported by Dixon (1991: 125ff.) for the north Queensland language, Yidiny, compared to the relatively low proportion of transparency of about 20 per cent observed by me in my own work in the Darwin area. This led me to wonder whether there was some kind of nonn in the proportion of transparency to opacity in the Aboriginal' placenames of a particular area. In tum this led me to send a query to Peter Sutton and, as I might have expected, he gave me a lengthy and thoughtful reply which indicated that the basic question I had put concealed a range of complications. That reply from Peter Sutton has found its way into his paper in this volume
Geography · Opacity · Optics · Physics · Political science · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |