Place Names
Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics
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- Authors:
- Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
- Francesco Cavallaro, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Date Published: March 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108748247
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What are place names? From where do they originate? How are they structured? What do they signify? How important are they in our life? This groundbreaking book explores these compelling questions and more by providing a thorough introduction to the assumptions, theories, terminology, and methods in toponymy and toponomastics – the studies of place names, or toponyms. It is the first comprehensive resource on the topic in a single volume, and explores the history and development of toponyms, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues pertinent to the study of place names around the world. It presents a wide range of examples and case studies illustrating the structure, function, and importance of toponyms from ancient times to the present day. Wide ranging yet accessible, it is an indispensable source of knowledge for students and scholars in linguistics, toponymy and toponomastics, onomastics, etymology, and historical linguistics.
Read more- Provides the first comprehensive work on Toponymy and Toponomastics
- Introduces the study of Toponymy and Toponomastics by associating it with several different disciplines
- Explains the most significant methods in toponymics, illustrated through case studies
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‘This book brings together ideas that conceptualise the practices of place naming. Grounded in a multidisciplinary fashion – from sociolinguistics to geography – this volume is innovative as it examines place names according to their relations with histories, cultures, and societies in order to understand their historical and linguistic origins as well as the role they play in people’s everyday lives.’ Remus Creţan, West University of Timișoara, Romania
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- Date Published: March 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108748247
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Language change
3. Historical toponomastics
4. Toponymy and the historical-linguistic reconstruction of proto-languages
5. Diachronic toponymy
6. Landscape and toponymy
7. Historical toponomastics and historical geography
8. Synchronic toponymy
9. Place names and society
10. Toponymy and cartography.
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