Francesco Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco Cavallaro

Place Names

Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrated with numerous case studies, this book is the first comprehensive overview of the related fields of toponymy and toponomastics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781108748247
• ISBN-10: 1108748244
• Artikelnr.: 64698463

Autorenporträt

Francesco Perono Cacciafoco is an associate professor in linguistics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Before joining XJTLU, he was a senior lecturer in historical linguistics at Nanyang Technological University. He works on the etymology of Indo-European place names, on the study of Aegean scripts, on cryptography, on language deciphering, and on language documentation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Language change
3. Historical toponomastics
4. Toponymy and the historical-linguistic reconstruction of proto-languages
5. Diachronic toponymy
6. Landscape and toponymy
7. Historical toponomastics and historical geography
8. Synchronic toponymy
9. Place names and society
10. Toponymy and cartography.