Minor Place Names on the Territory of the Czech National Language as a (Historical) Source Cover Image

Pomístní jména na území českého národního jazyka jako (historický) pramen
Minor Place Names on the Territory of the Czech National Language as a (Historical) Source

Author(s): Stanislava Spinková
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Onomastic;; anoikonym; minor place name; source; vanished settlement; cattle; emigration; mining; processing of minerals

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on anoikonyms / minor place names (names of unsettled objects in the landscape). The names are a testament e.g. to a vanished settlement, to waves of emigration, to former cattle farming, to former mining and processing of minerals. The author shows that the linguistics has what to offer to other fields of sciences and in this way it can contribute to human cognition

  • Issue Year: 18/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 133-139
  • Page Count: 7