The Australianness Of Australian Placenames

Algeo, John

doi:10.1179/nam.1988.36.3-4.173

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“…The classification of the specific element and its relationship to the namer's intention has long been the subject of consideration by toponymists and other linguists (see Algeo 1988;Baker & Carmony 1975;Bréelle 2013;Gasque 2005;Gläser 1996;McArthur 1928;McArthur 1986;Pearce 1955;Rennick 2005;Smith 1993Smith , 1996Stewart 1954Stewart , 1970Zelinsky 2002, inter alia). Those previous attempts had suffered from an apparently ad hoc approach which produced gaps in classifications, ambiguous definitions, and overlapping categories.…”

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Revised Typology of Place-Naming

Blair

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2021

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A functional and systematic typology of toponyms is an essential instrument for the toponymist wishing to investigate the naming practices and patterns of a region. To this end, the Australian National Placenames Survey developed a toponym typology for Australia (Tent & Blair 2011). This was characterized as a ‘typology of motivations for naming’. Although various researchers have used this typology with seeming success, further application of the typology to the Survey’s database of toponyms has revealed the need for a re-evaluation of the naming process. This occasioned a modification of some toponym categories generating a revised typology which can be considered a ‘typology of expressions of the naming intention’.

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