Revised Typology of Place-Naming

Blair, David; Tent, Jan

doi:10.5195/names.2021.2260

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“…As shown in Table 1, the frequency counts for these categories varied significantly. The river name classification was primarily based on the revised toponym classification scheme proposed by Tent & Blair (2021).…”

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Exploration of River Names in China

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Xiang-yong²

2023

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As a subtype of toponym, hydronyms reflect people’s perception, understanding, and contemplation of waterbodies. With data collected from authoritative gazetteers, this study classifies the names of 189 major rivers distributed across Mainland China into seven categories to extrapolate general rules governing river-naming in China. The results show that descriptive names comprise the biggest share. Based on this study’s research findings, this article also discusses the complex cognitive processes, including conceptual metonymy, conceptual metaphor, and conceptual blending involved in river-naming in China. Specifically, based on the principles of proximity and prominence, the most frequently employed types were the following metonymies: PLACE FOR RIVER, PROPERTY FOR RIVER, PERSON FOR RIVER, EVENT FOR RIVER, and FUNCTION FOR RIVER. As this research shows, river naming in China is not arbitrary, but highly motivated.

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Exploration of River Names in China

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Xiang-yong²

2023

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“…Our experimental results suggest that speakers do not have intuitions on generic terms’ senses and etimology. In this regard, participants differ from geographers and toponomasticians in the use of these terms (see Blair and Tent, 2021; Cassi and Marcaccini, 1998; Derungs and Purves, 2016), at least with respect to our questionnaire. Some basic notions from lexicography and terminology can help us in solving this apparent contrast.…”

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“…the generic and specific term for Mount ‘Rushmore’ vs. the specific and generic term for ‘Pitt Street’. Toponyms thus display distinctive grammatical properties (Blair and Tent, 2021; Perono Cacciafoco and Cavallaro, 2023).…”

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Geographical maps meet place names where languages meet dialects: The case of Italian

Samo,

Ursini

2023

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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The goal of this article is to analyse the role of urban place names (‘urbanonyms’) with dialectal origins in the domain of Italian toponomastics. The article offers a gazetteer-based study from which a list of dialectal generic terms is extracted and compiled. From this list, a detailed geographic distributional analysis of these terms is offered, and the dialectal origins of terms are assessed. A questionnaire study is subsequently presented that analyses to what degree Italian speakers may interpret these terms as being dialectal in origin, and to an extent unique to the places they classify. The article concludes by discussing how these findings can inform our understanding of place names, their linguistic properties and their possible dialectal origins.

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“…When designing a typology for geographical names, the initial step involves distinguishing names based on their generic and specific elements. The linguistic substance of geographical names, such as morphology and semantics, was analyzed together with the history of the bestowal of the names [5]. Literature studies on geographical names have been carried out in various locations, including in Guangdong Province in 2016 [6], in the Sinai Peninsula in 2018 [2], in the Magelang and Menoreh Mountains in 2019 [7,8], and in the Province of Trento, Northern Italy, in 2021 [9].…”

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Geographical Names Study of Nagari, a Local Customary-Based Community Unit in Agam Regency, Indonesia

Sevicha,

Cahyono

2023

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Nagari names in Agam Regency are lacking historical record despite being a fundamental spatial information. Preliminary research has revealed inconsistencies in nagari name records, even in official government documents. This paper conducts an analysis of nagari names within Agam Regency, West Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Geographical names depict both the natural landscape and human activities, including their interaction with the environment [1], and Agam Regency spans from sea level to 2891 meters, featuring diverse landscapes, while the formation of nagari is deeply rooted in local customary law. This raises a question: what are nagari names in Agam Regency, and what do they signify?. Therefore, the objectives are: 1) establishing a digital nagari name database for Agam Regency, and 2) analysing geographical names based on linguistic and historical meanings. Primary methods used are interviews and literature studies. Approximately 52.44% of names are related to man-made features, human activities, and interactions, while others derive from natural features or a combination of both. Nagari names were found to be clustered around Bukittinggi and Lubuk Basung, historically significant regions. This study contributes to the preservation of nagari names in Agam Regency, and the digital database holds potential for further spatial analyses.

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Revised Typology of Place-Naming

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Exploration of River Names in China

Exploration of River Names in China

Geographical maps meet place names where languages meet dialects: The case of Italian

Geographical Names Study of Nagari, a Local Customary-Based Community Unit in Agam Regency, Indonesia

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