Urbanonymie malých sídel na příkladu Moravy – explorativní analýza
Urbanonymy of smaller settlements on the instance of Moravia – an explorative analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article provides information about urbanonyms in small settlements. On the basisof a representative sample of Moravian villages, it estimates the number of municipalitieswith urbanonyms and it summarizes their character, motivation, and level ofidentification. The predominant motivation is the orientation function followed bytraditional oral names and honorification. The predominant level of identification isthe local level. The greatest diversity exists in traditional oral names, which accountfor the largest proportion of unique names and occurrences. The analytical part testsvariables that may explain the introduction of street names, their frequency and theircharacter. It shows that the proximity to larger cities and the population size of a communityare related to the presence of urbanonyms, their number and partly their character.Significant differences also exist between towns on the one hand and townletsand villages on the other. Towns have a greater proportion of honorific names andnames with international and national levels of identification, while townlets and villageshave a greater proportion of traditional oral names and names with regional andlocal levels of identification. In this respect, small towns are more like large citiesthan townlets and villages of the same size.

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