Abstract
Aside from bringing Gullah (the English-related creole which still thrives among rural Blacks on the coast of South Carolina and Georgia in the United States) to the attention of more linguists and to the forefront of studies on Atlantic creoles, another one of Lorenzo Dow Turner's contributions has been putting African proper names among the core evidence in support of the African substrate theory of the formation of these new languages. Generally, his Africanisms in the Gullah dialect (1949) has been warmly welcome (see, for example, Hall 1950, McDavid 1950, McDavid & McDavid 1951, and, in spite of a few words of caution, Blok 1959), and to this date it has become a classic reference in Atlantic creole studies.
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