The Guineamen of Gloucester VA

[Sarah Worthington]

Marliss,

I understand there has been at least one linguist who worked with this
population, but that the relationship between the community and the linguist
somehow soured and the community has been against anybody else coming in. I
don't know any names, mainly because I heard this from my father, who lives
in Bena, and not from an academic source. You might be able to get some
information from the owner of the general store in Bena.

Sarah T. Worthington
Arizona State University


>From: marliss at HROADS.NET
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: The Guineamen of Gloucester VA
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:15:46 -0400
>
>This is a plea from a Linguistics Grad at Old Dominion University.
>Has there been any ethnolinguistic study completed of the
>Guineamen in Gloucester, Virginia? If you have any information or
>can point to someone who does, please let me know ASAP.
>Thanks! Marliss

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