Dėl pragmatinės lingvistinės vietovardžių analizės (remiantis Marijampolės apskrities vietovardžiais)
On Pragmatic Linguistic Analysis of Place Names (Based on the Place Names of Marijampolė County)

Summary/Abstract: The article is a scientific introduction to the pragmatic research of place names presenting several results of the analysis in progress. It relies on unique data of toponymy from the questionnaires of interwar Lithuania stored at the Department of Onomastics in the Institute of the Lithuanian Language (place names from Marijampolė County). The analysis of place names of a single ethnic region from the selected perspective is a continuity of the previous place-name research based on the usual aspects of word-formation and origin. The article presents the major pragmatic theoretical and methodological principles of the linguistic analysis of place names; it reveals the research aspects which have scarcely been used in Lithuanian toponymy. The present publication is based on especially interesting and valuable information from the comments section of the “Land Names” questionnaires, which has not been published before. It enabled to approach the toponymic research material through the prism of experience of language users from a specific ethic region. The research generalizations were formulated; conclusions and recommendations were provided.

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