Francis Drake’s 1579 Voyage: Assessing Linguistic Evidence for an Oregon Landing

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2016-12-24 DOI:10.1353/ANL.2016.0018

J. Lyon

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Abstract

Abstract: This article surveys and analyzes data from a number of aboriginal languages of Oregon, investigating the hypothesis that Sir Francis Drake may have landed somewhere on the Oregon coast in 1579 rather than in California, as is usually assumed. This study is partially motivated by conflicting navigational records in surviving accounts of Drake’s voyage. There is no hard linguistic evidence for an Oregon landing, though there are a few plausible semantic and phonetic matches between items on Drake’s word list and data from Oregon languages. Though themselves inconclusive as evidence, these data should be reconsidered in light of any new archaeological evidence.

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弗朗西斯·德雷克1579年的航行:俄勒冈登陆的语言学证据评估

摘要:本文调查和分析了来自俄勒冈州一些土著语言的数据，调查了弗朗西斯·德雷克爵士可能在1579年登陆俄勒冈海岸的某个地方，而不是像通常认为的那样在加利福尼亚登陆的假设。这项研究的部分动机是由于德雷克航行中幸存的航海记录相互矛盾。虽然德雷克的单词列表和俄勒冈语言的数据之间有一些看似合理的语义和语音匹配，但没有确凿的语言学证据表明俄勒冈登陆。虽然这些数据本身不能作为确凿的证据，但应该根据任何新的考古证据来重新考虑。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.