PLACE APPELLATIVES AND PLACE NAMES IN ROMANIAN. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE TOPONYMS OF BISTRA AND SEBEŞ VALLEYS (CARAŞ-SEVERIN COUNTY) Cover Image

PLACE APPELLATIVES AND PLACE NAMES IN ROMANIAN. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE TOPONYMS OF BISTRA AND SEBEŞ VALLEYS (CARAŞ-SEVERIN COUNTY)
PLACE APPELLATIVES AND PLACE NAMES IN ROMANIAN. SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO THE TOPONYMS OF BISTRA AND SEBEŞ VALLEYS (CARAŞ-SEVERIN COUNTY)

Author(s): Diana Boc-Sînmărghitan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: place appellatives; classification; semantics; toponymy; Bistra and Sebeş valleys

Summary/Abstract: Even if the opinions of experts do not unanimously agree on the relation between the place names and the place appellatives, they agree to the idea that they fulfill the same communicative function in the Romanian language. The place names of the area of Bistra and Sebeş valleys represent an integral part of the Romanian toponymy and they do not differ much of the toponymic structures existing on the entire territory where Romanians lived and are living now. They are the living proof of the life continuity on these lands. This article wishes to emphasize once more the importance of a semantic classification in the toponymy study. For that, aspects connected to the meaning of place appellatives, toponymy metaphor, issues of conversion or tautologies in the toponymy, as well as the single or polisemantics of place appellatives will be discussed. All such issues are connected to the concern micro-area, the beautiful realm of my childhood.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 658-665
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian