Day: July 13, 2021
Onomastics General
Who are the Cornish?
It is largely now accepted that Britain has been systematically farmed and settled since the Neolithic Era (Malone, 2001, p11). The implication is that a network of settlements and system of land organisation was in place by the end of that period, and it follows that any settlements and significant topographical features would have had […]
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Onomastics General
What is toponymy?
Toponymy is the study of toponyms, names associated with topographic features, such as settlements, or natural features such as hills and rivers. There are two types of toponymy: (i) synchronic toponymy, which relates to the standardisation of place names, deployed by governmental organisations in particular, and to some extent minority language enthusiasts, and (ii) diachronic […]
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Onomastics General
Why study names?
Names are not simply ‘identifiers’, but have a particular value within literature and history. The names of actual persons carry additional information that relates to their referential context. This is what individuals and communities collectively believed about these individuals and the places that they were related to, perhaps linking to real events, folk traditions and […]
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