Place Names - Couverture souple

Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108748244 ISBN 13 : 9781108748247

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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 and proper names respectively. 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco is a Senior Lecturer in Historical Linguistics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He works on the etymology of Indo-European place names, on the study of Aegean Scripts, on Cryptography, 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108748244
• ISBN 13: 9781108748247
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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