The place-names of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland : a syntactic analysis

• Main Author: Porter, Trevor, 1972-
• Other Authors: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of English Language and Literature;
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Names; Geographical > Newfoundland and Labrador > Trinity Bay; Newfoundland; Canada; Newfoundland studies; University of Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/theses4/id/167291

Thesis (M. A.), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1999. English Bibliography: p. 86-92. This paper examines the variety of structures of place-names collected during fieldwork undertaken in 102 Trinity Bay, Newfoundland communities and suggests a framework suitable to the grammatical classification of these names. Chapter One is an overview of the history of English place-name studies. It traces place-names methodology from England, beginning in the nineteenth century, to the United States, Canada and, particularly, to Newfoundland. A historical overview of the study area is presented in Chapter Two and Chapter Three discusses the methodological approaches used in the study. Chapter Four is a discussion of issues relevant to the examination and categorization of the data. The grammatical patterns revealed in the names are discussed in Chapter Five. A complete list of patterns is assembled in Table 1, Appendix I, and the corpus is presented, divided according to the discussed categories, in Appendix II.