Place Names

Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco Cavallaro (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49016-0 (ISBN)

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Illustrated with numerous case studies, this book provides the first comprehensive overview of toponymy and toponomastics – the studies of place names and proper names. Wide-ranging yet accessible, it is essential reading for researchers and students in historical linguistics, etymology, sociolinguistics, anthropology, sociology, and geography.

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.

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco is an associate professor in linguistics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Before joining XJTLU, he was a senior lecturer in historical linguistics at Nanyang Technological University. He works on the etymology of Indo-European place names, on the study of Aegean scripts, on cryptography, on language deciphering, and on language documentation. Francesco Cavallaro is an associate professor in linguistics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests are in sociolinguistics and the social aspects of bilingualism, especially of minority groups in multilingual contexts.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-108-49016-6 / 1108490166
ISBN-13	978-1-108-49016-0 / 9781108490160
Zustand	Neuware