Ономастикалық кеңістікті реттеу

Ономастикалық кеңістікті реттеу жолдары. Облыс орталығында осындай атаумен кездесу өтті. Негізгі мақсат - советтік дәуірден қалған, ескі идеологиялық атаулардан құтылу. "Ұлт тағдыры" қоғамдық бірлестігінің төрағасы Дос Көшім ономастика мәселесінің негізгі бағыт-бағдарын түсіндірді.

ICOS Summer School 2023 in Tweets

 

Today we began our day at #ICOSSS23 with word cloud activity. @ICOSnews @UofGARC pic.twitter.com/JOCaS1qBOf

— Fatemeh Akbari (@Fatemeh41345570) August 22, 2023

#ICOS Summer School started with PechaKucha presentations today in #Glasgow. #ICOSSS23 @ICOSnews @UofGARC pic.twitter.com/FPdWAg9m76

— Fatemeh Akbari (@Fatemeh41345570) August 21, 2023

Naše doktorandky Kristýna Březinová a Jarmila Mádrová prezentují výsledky svého výzkumu na Summer School of Onomastics v Glasgow. #PhD #onomastics #Glasgow pic.twitter.com/ROfKb0syNg

— Katedra českého jazyka FF OU (@KCJ_OSU) August 22, 2023

We were over the moon to have you!! Thank you for your incredible work! @ICOSnews #icosss23 https://t.co/AAWoTSziOW

— Brittnee (@BrittneeLeysen) August 22, 2023

It’s been a great start to the @ICOSnews #ICOSSS23 discussing all things names and naming in the beautiful @UofGARC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Day one was a full day of @PechaKucha presentations by all the participants (in person and online) which were recorded by the incredible @floatingdesign 💜 pic.twitter.com/6aOydPprgJ

— Brittnee (@BrittneeLeysen) August 22, 2023

Day three of @ICOSnews #icosss23 was our fieldtrip day! We went through to Edinburgh for @edfringe fun and visited the @EU_SSSA @TobarDualchais ‘Carrying Streams’ exhibit, before hunting for minerals with Scottish name origins at the National Museum of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pic.twitter.com/FTB9MPkgqD

— Brittnee (@BrittneeLeysen) August 24, 2023

Day four of @ICOSnews #icosss23 we luckily got the occasional glimpse sun on our place-names of Glasgow walk with Dr Simon Taylor ☀️After warming up with soup and sandwiches, we are now in the midst of peer review sessions @UofGARC ✍️ pic.twitter.com/OeoAGdQRuZ

— Brittnee (@BrittneeLeysen) August 24, 2023

Symposium "In nomine – Name und Benennung im Mittelalter"

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Symposium des Mediävistenverbandes an der Universität Salzburg 

23. – 26. 2. 2025 

Organisation: Manfred Kern (Germanistik), Christina Antenhofer (Geschichte), Alexander Zerfaß (Liturgiewissenschaft) 

Konzept des Symposiums 

In nomine domini, ich wil beginnen, sprechent âmen, mit diesen Worten eröffnet Walther von der Vogelweide den sogenannten Unmutston, eine seiner berühmtesten politischen Strophenreihen (L. 31,22). Die Berufung auf den Namen des Herrn, der dem Gebot entsprechend gar nicht eigentlich genannt wird, besichert die Selbstermächtigung des Sängers als scharfer Kritiker der soziopolitischen Zustände. Es folgt eine Nennung des Landes, in dem das Sänger-Ich „singen und sagen“ gelernt haben will, auch des Regenten, des Herzogs von Österreich, Leopold. Mit diesem Name-Dropping schreibt sich der Text in eine realhistorische Geographie und Hierarchie ein, die (scheinbar) historische Faktualität vermittelt. Das poetische Subjekt selbst gibt sich konkrete biographische Konturen, Orts- und Gönnername formen offenbar seine Identität und Individualität, auch für die Rezipierenden. Die Namen machen das Subjekt, das sich nur Ich nennt, identifizierbar, sie haben Wiedererkennungswert bis in die moderne Forschung. Man meint(e), über ihre Spur die historische Künstlerpersönlichkeit mit ihren Erfahrungen greifen zu können, in der Berufung auf den Herrn schließlich jenen selbstbewussten Sänger, den man bis heute in Walther sehen will – auch wenn sein Name in diesem Fall gar nicht fällt. 

Das konkrete Beispiel kann erste Aspekte und Potenziale andeuten, die das Thema des Symposiums des Mediävistenverbandes 2025 in Salzburg bietet. Sie will sich Phänomenen, Semantiken, kulturellen Erscheinungsformen und Praktiken widmen, die sich mit Namen (nomina propria) und Benennung im Mittelalter verbinden. Ziel ist es, spezifische historische Perspektiven inter- und transdisziplinär zu erschließen. 

Die Bedeutung von Namen und Benennung zeigt sich schon am Gottesnamen selbst, an seiner Tabuisierung, seiner Umschreibung, aber auch im Sinne des Sprechens in nomine, wie es eben bei Walther heißt. Name verbindet sich mit Autorität, er impliziert in gewisser, mitunter paradoxer Weise eine namentliche, verbale Verkörperung, Personalisierung und Präsenz transzendenter wie immanenter Instanzen (zumal Herrschaftsinstanzen), von Wissen und Wissenstraditionen, aber auch von einem sich ausbildenden Begriff von Urheberschaft und Kreation, nicht zuletzt in den Künsten. Namen visualisieren darüber hinaus Netzwerke, personelle, insbesondere familiäre, wie geographische, und stellen Indikatoren für vormoderne Individualität dar. Individualisierung über Benennung geht zudem einher mit Verfügbarmachen, wie es sich etwa auch an Phänomenen der Namensmagie abzeichnet. 

Das umfassende Thema lässt sich in folgende Felder unterteilen, die von einander natürlich nicht streng zu scheiden sind und bei denen jeweils theoretische, geschichtliche, textuelle, ikonische und performative Aspekte ineinandergreifen: 

Themenfeld 1: Denkformen 

Name und Heiligkeit – Gottesname – nomen est omen – Namensmagie – Namenstabu – Name und auctoritas – Namensetymologie – Logik und Sprachphilosophie 

Themenfeld 2: Kulturgeschichte/Kulturtheorie 

Namen und Kulturgeschichte (Siedlungsgeschichte, Ortsnamen, Personennamen) – Kultur und Interkulturalität von Namen – Name und Recht/Rechtspraxis – Eigen- und Fremdbenennung – Name und Identität – Schimpfnamen, Spottnamen, Verballhornungen 

Themenfeld 3: Ästhetik und Poetik des Nennens 

Sprechakte und Namensrhetorik (Berufung, Anaklese/Epiklese, Katalog) – Name und Klang – Strategien der Benennung (Namen und Sujets, Figurennamen, Namen und Texttraditionen, Name und Antonomasie) – Sprechende Namen und Namenszusätze 

Themenfeld 4: Subjekt, Objekt und Zuschreibung 

Anonymität und Onymität – Name und Autorschaftsbewusstsein – Namenssignaturen und non-verbale Signaturen (Steinmetzzeichen) – Bildkünstlerische Einschreibungen – Zuschreibung und Pseudo-Namen – Tiernamen – Dingnamen

Studien zu Namen und Benennung erleben in der Gegenwart in allen genannten Feldern erhebliche Transformationen durch den Digital Turn und die Digital Humanities. Wünschenswert sind daher auch Beiträge, die wissenschaftshistorisch und/oder methodologisch nach innovativen Optionen fragen, die sich mit neuen digitalen Erschließungs- und Analyseformen ergeben. 

Alle Themenfelder bieten last but not least Chancen für eine fachdidaktisch attraktive Umsetzung und Potenziale für mediävistische Gegenstandsbereiche im Schulunterricht. 

Einreichung von Sektions- und Vortragsvorschlägen 

Vorschläge für Sektionen und Einzelvorträge werden bis zum 1. 2. 2024 per Mail an izmf@plus.ac.at erbeten. 

Sektionen steht ein Slot von 1,5 Stunden zur Verfügung, sie bestehen in der Regel aus drei Vorträgen, die interdisziplinär anschlussfähig sein sollen. 

Die Vortragenden einer Sektion sollen mindestens zwei unterschiedliche Fächer vertreten. 

Jeder Beitrag (Einzelvortrag und Sektionsvortrag) soll mit einem kurzen Abstract von max. 2000 Zeichen versehen sein. 

Bei Sektionseinreichungen soll zusätzlich ein kurzes Gesamtkonzept zu übergreifenden Fragestellungen und Zielen (max. 2000 Zeichen) gegeben werden. 

Es wird gebeten, die beabsichtigte Vortragssprache explizit anzugeben. 

Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria

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Proceedings of the TeAI Workshop Held in Verona, March 25-26, 2022 have now been published !!!

• Edited by:
 
• Livio Warbinek,
 
• Federico Giusfredi

The topic of the Anatolian panthea in the Bronze Age deals with Hattian, Hittite, Palaean, Luwian and Hurrian gods who have been worshiped in the Kingdom of Ḫatti. In such a context, along with trying to keep a balanced and methodologically-aware approach in our original research, we realized that a multi-authored work such as the present volume, with papers written by some of the major experts of Anatolian religious history, would represent an invaluable contribution to the advancement of a complex and vast field. This collection of essays is the result of the workshop Theonyms, Panthea and Syncretisms in Hittite Anatolia and Northern Syria, held at the University of Verona on 25th and 26th March 2022. Colleagues with different areas of expertise pertaining to the topic of Anatolian religions contributed to an extremely successful event.

• KEYWORDS:
 
• Anatolian panthea,
 
• Hittite religion,
 
• theonyms,
 
• linguistics,
 
• State cult

• DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0109-4
• Series: Studia Asiana

Recherches sur la toponymie de l’arrondissement de Lure (Haute-Saône)

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Bulletin de souscription :

Date de publication prévue : 30 septembre 2023

Jean-Pierre CHAMBON, 

Recherches sur la toponymie de l’arrondissement de Lure (Haute-Saône) : linguistique historique, dialectologie, traces d’histoire

XIV + 652 p., format 17 x 24, broché – 65 €
ISBN 978-2-37276-067-6

En souscription au prix de 39 € au lieu de 65 € JUSQU’AU
30 SEPTEMBRE 2023

A propos de l’ouvrage et de la souscription

Bulletin de souscription

Interactive map showing the pronunciation of Welsh placenames

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Happening on the Welsh version of Wikipedia has led one man to create a brilliant online tool that allows people to learn how to pronounce Welsh placenames.

Dafydd Elfryn has created Map Llais (Voice Map) which features more than a thousand audio files of placenames in Wales, pronounced in local dialect.

It has become a great resource for many visiting Wales and those already living here.

“The idea first came about when I found the Wikimedia site of Welsh placename pronunciations,” said Dafydd.

“The Welsh Wicipedia team had done the hard work of going out to communities to record and compile the placename pronunciations.

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Endings of places in Poland

via reddit/u/DaveBensonPhilips

5.000 Thai first names with more than 16.000 English spellings

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Mondonomo is pleased to communicate names and connect Thailand to the world with the publication of this Handbook, which celebrate the role of the Thai naming traditions in the nation’s development from the past to the present, touching the daily lives of people in Thai society, as well as impacting Thailand’s international relations.

About the book

• First and biggest collection of the most frequent Thai first names (5.000),
• First and biggest collection of more than 16.000 English spelling variations for Thai names

Thailand is known for its unique cultures, stunning beaches, and delicious food among other things. While most of its history can be seen in museums and historical buildings, a fascinating part of Thai culture can be experienced in Thai people's names. Up until 100 years ago, people in Thailand were known by one name. After 1913, Thais and new Immigrants to the country had to adopt a unique family surname (following the Western form of family name last), which usually translates into a phrase that represents a positive virtue. The unique surname ensures that everyone who shares that name is related, and despite the apparent lengthiness of many Thai names when translated into Roman letters, new Thai family surnames are not allowed to exceed 10 Thai letters in length -- it is only due to the phonetic translation of Thai letters into Roman syllables that make the surnames appear long. Of course, indigenous Thais picked the shorter names.

Do you feel lost in this mish-mash of Thai names?

We present to your attention the Handbook of Top Thai Names by Attapol Rutherford (Associate Professor, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) assisted with Mondonomo AI. Its aim is to forewarn you and, therefore, to forearm you with the knowledge about Thai first names and with the insight into their spelling in Latin script. The Handbook will be more than just helpful for those who does not master the Thai language. The latter has its own unique writing script, which is unintelligible for most people in the world. As the world becomes globalized, everybody needs to Romanise their name into the Latin alphabet as names are the signs that we use to call each other regardless of what language we speak. You will find each Thai name transcribed according to the Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS) that is the official system for transcribing Thai words into Latin alphabets.

This reference edition will also help the general Thai public as it hardly knows how to transcribe their names with it.

 

Structure of the Handbook

The first part presents the most common 5.000 Thai forenames, organized in English alphabetical order. For each name, the Latin form is listed first, followed by one or more forms of the name in Thai script. The pronunciation in the phonetic alphabet is then provided, followed by the name's gender and an estimation of its popularity in present-day Thailand.

The second part presents the same collection of names ordered by the Thai alphabet. After a name, gender, and popularity estimation, over 16.000 Romanized forms are listed. The first form is always the official RTGS transcription. Among the other variants labelled by the expert team, there are also Romanised names that are found to be used in multilingual corpora and verified automatically by the AI model.

The third part documents the less standard Romanized forms of Thai forenames analysed in the first two parts. For each Latin variant of the name, the name in Thai script, the correct RTGS transcription, and the page number are provided.

Talk on the field names and minor placenames collected by the Westmeath Field Names Recording Project

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Project coordinator Dr Aengus Ó Fionnagáin will give an illustrated talk on the field names and minor placenames collected by the Westmeath Field Names Recording Project.

The talk will focus on names recorded in the south of the County and will discuss a number of minor placenames, some current, some historical, which have been collected in Ballinahown, Castledaly, Mount Temple, Bealin, Moydrum, Glasson and other areas in and around Athlone as part of Westmeath Field Names Project (2018-2023). Aengus will discuss the origins and meanings of the names collected.

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Further Information

Westmeath Field Names Recording Project

• • heritage@westmeathcoco.ie

Introducing the 10 Million Names Project

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August 24, 20233:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

There are at least 44 million descendants of enslaved individuals alive today, but slavery separated families, erased names, and obscured facts. 

The 10 Million Names Project, recently launched by American Ancestors and its partners, aims to connect the family stories of these descendants to the 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in the U.S. prior to emancipation and to restore their names to history. 

Join Chief Historian Dr. Kendra Field and Vice President of Research and Library Services Lindsay Fulton as they share the scope of this project, the objectives, and our methodology.

Call for papers: Représentations de l’espace dans le lexique

Short Title: TchéCaLex

Date: 22-May-2024 - 24-May-2024
Location: Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic
Contact Person: Radka Mudrochova
Meeting Email: tchecalex@gmail.com

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2023

Meeting Description:

« […] l’espace appartient à ces catégories conceptuelles qui se laissent mal saisir par la pensée. Immergés dans l’espace, confrontés à lui dans le plus immédiat de notre quotidien, nous pouvons aussi être désarmés lorsqu’il s’agit d’en donner une définition précise. »

L’objectif de ce colloque est de mieux comprendre les différentes formes que prend la lexicalisation de l’espace (comment dit-on l’espace ?), les diverses valeurs de ces formes (quel ou quels sens prennent de telles formes lexicales ?), ainsi que la façon dont elles s’inscrivent dans des matrices ou des relations plus générales (insertion dans des expressions, liens spécifiques avec d’autres composantes du lexique, etc.). Les principales dimensions pertinentes dans l’étude du lexique pourront être examinées, notamment : la composition lexico-sémantique, la morphologie lexicale, la dimension syntagmatique, les aspects relatifs à l’aménagement linguistique (p. ex., le remplacement de toponymes) ou les motifs ayant présidé au choix de noms de marques reliés à des lieux particuliers.

Appel à communications :

Les propositions pourront inclure, entre autres, l’examen de l’usage des noms propres de lieux (noms d’espaces habités, hodonymes, hydronymes et autres toponymes), d’expressions figées relatives à l’espace, de morphèmes spécifiques qui dans leur signification comportent une valeur spatiale ou de constructions comportant un sens spatial.

Pourront être étudiées les valeurs culturelles des unités et autres formes d’expression spatiolexicales, que ce soit par des analyses approfondies des relations lexique/culture manifestées à travers l’expression de certaines formes d’espace, de certains lieux, ou bien par la comparaison de différences interculturelles remarquables en ce qui a trait à l’expression de l’espace, ou à l’utilisation de l’espace comme bassin métaphorique.
En outre, à condition qu’elles soient centrées sur l’étude de constituants lexicaux, pourront être proposées des communications sur les effets des pratiques numériques – et de la distance qui les accompagne – sur les représentations de l’espace : observe-t-on par exemple un écart remarquable entre représentations de l’espace expérientiel, vécu, et représentations d’autres types d’espace ?

Les trois axes suivants seront considérés en priorité :
1. axe néologie
2. axe lexicographie
3. axe diachronie, sur des périodes plus ou moins longues

Des travaux réalisés à partir de données de corpus sont attendus.

Format et consignes

La langue du colloque est le français.

Les communications seront d’une durée de 40 minutes (30 minutes de présentation, suivies de 10 minutes de discussion).

Les résumés, rédigés en français, ne doivent pas dépasser 200 mots (compte non tenu de la bibliographie). Ils comporteront les éléments suivants :
- nom(s) des auteurs/autrices
- affiliation institutionnelle (le cas échéant)
- adresse courriel
- un titre concis
- un énoncé clair et explicite de l’objet ou des objets étudiés, des données exploitées et des enjeux qui se rapportent à l’étude

Les références bibliographiques, le cas échéant, ne doivent pas permettre d’identifier les auteurs/autrices des résumés. Aucune référence ne sera faite, dans le résumé, à des organismes de financement de recherche.

Une seule proposition peut être envoyée comme auteur/autrice principal·e, et deux propositions comme co-auteur/co-autrice.

Date limite pour l’envoi de la proposition de communication : 31 octobre 2023.

Soumission du résumé en version .doc(x) à l’adresse : tchecalex@gmail.com

Avis d’acceptation ou de refus de la proposition : début du mois de janvier 2024.

Frais d’inscription au colloque :
100 € - enseignant.e.s et chercheur.e.s
80 € - étudiant.e.s

Une publication qui reprendra une partie des études présentées au colloque est prévue.

Irish Gaelic Street Name Reviewer

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Review and edit, as needed, the street names in the client's database.

The aim of this project is to ensure that street names will be correctly presented in a prominent navigation platform. You will draw on your local expertise and strong language skills to ensure data accuracy.

This project offers:

• Flexible hours
• Project commitment of 30 or more hours per week for the duration of your assignment
• The chance to directly impact how well your local street names are represented in the client's mapping software


Key requirements:

• Available for 30-40 hours per week for the duration of the assigned region

$18 - $20 an hour

Тайна наших имен и Рагнарёк!

В этом выпуске доктор филологических наук Федор Успенский рассказывает про происхождение имен на Руси, влияние викингов и что общего между скандинавской мифологией и днями недели. 0:00 - О чем сегодняшний выпуск? 0:45 - Что такое скандинавские руны? Как они устроены? 3:41 - Реформа рунического алфавита 5:57 - Какой смысл скандинавы вкладывали в руны? 10:25 - Как устроена скандинавская мифология? Кто главный бог? 15:04 - Как скандинавы воспринимали другие мифологии? 20:13 - Антропонимика - наука о именах 28:12 - Какие древнерусские имена пропали? 33:26 - Про князя Владимира и его сыновей. Почему исчезали княжеские имена? 37:03 - Мода на имена. Как она меняется? 39:08 - Убийство Бориса и Глеба и при чем тут скандинавский текст "Сага об Эймунде"? 45:49 - Как скандинавская культура повлияла на Русь? 56:27 - История рунического письма 1:01:08 - Почему скандинавская мифология популярна в массовой культуре? 1:09:31 - Старшая и младшая эдды. Главные книги скандинавской мифологии 1:12:31 - Автроская поэзия скальдов. В чем ее особенность? 1:17:17 - Снорри Стурлусон и его "учебник" понимания скальдической поэзии 1:26:58 - Еще про влияние скандинавской культуры на нас 1:33:58- Дни недели названы в честь богов? В каких языках? 1:36:29 - Про ценности древних скандинавов. Что они ценили в человеке? 1:40:00 - Рога на шлемах викингов - это фейк? 1:42:10 - Что такое Рагнарёк? 1:43:23 - Спасибо за просмотр!

Слово в тексте. Литературная ономастика

 

Лекция по русскому языку с доктором филологических наук, профессором Тамбовского государственного университета им. Г.Р. Державина Антониной Семеновной Щербак. Речь пойдёт о том, что такое ономастика, с примерами из художественной литературы.

Scottish Gaelic Street Name Reviewer

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Review and edit, as needed, the street names in the client's database.

The aim of this project is to ensure that street names will be correctly presented in a prominent navigation platform. You will draw on your local expertise and strong language skills to ensure data accuracy.


This project offers:
• Flexible hours
• Project commitment of 30 or more hours per week for the duration of your assignment
• The chance to directly impact how well your local street names are represented in the client's mapping software


Key requirements:
• Available for 30-40 hours per week for the duration of the assigned region
$18 - $20 an hour

Donner un nom à un lieu et le faire officialiser par la Commission de toponymie

Soumettre un toponyme pour officialisation

La demande d'officialisation d'un nom, dont le choix relève d’une municipalité, doit être transmise à la Commission par courriel à l’adresse topo@toponymie.gouv.qc.ca. La demande doit contenir les documents et les renseignements suivants :

• Une copie de la résolution municipale ou du règlement (les originaux ne sont pas requis);
• Un plan de localisation du lieu à nommer;
• L'origine et la signification du nom proposé;
• Dans le cas d'un changement de nom, les raisons justifiant un tel changement et la confirmation que la population concernée par celui-ci a été avisée.

Le nom doit respecter les règles d'écriture et être conforme aux critères de choix de la Commission, comme celui sur l'exclusion des noms de personnes vivantes.

Il est à noter qu'il n'existe plus de formulaire de proposition de nom à l'intention des municipalités et que la Commission privilégie l'envoi de la documentation par courriel plutôt que par la poste.

Changer le nom ou le statut d'une municipalité

Pour tout changement d'un nom de municipalité ou de son statut (municipalité de paroisse, municipalité de village...), consultez la section Loi sur l'organisation territoriale municipale du ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation. Les guides qui y sont présentés expliquent en détail les étapes à suivre pour ce faire.

Call for Papers "Toponymy and Toponomastics at the Intersection between Language Contact and Historical Geography"

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Submission Deadline: 1st August 2024

We invite research on the following themes and related areas:

• Historical toponomastics and diachronic toponymy (in general);

• Toponymy, hydronymy, oronymy, and odonymy (in general);

• Etymology and toponymy;

• Toponymy in the context of onomastics;

• Language documentation, field linguistics, and toponymy;

• Toponymy and oral tradition;

• Language contact and toponymy;

• Human geography and toponymy;

• Historical geography and toponymy;

• Toponymy in the context of socio-onomastics.

Especially welcomed are studies dealing with the historical reconstruction of place names, as well as articles focused on complex issues, such as, among others, language contact in prehistoric times and theoretical approaches to the puzzles of original homelands and settlement dynamics of prehistoric speakers through the etymological restitution and analysis of ancient toponyms from different language families and geographical contexts. We particularly invite original perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches. 

Toponymy and toponomastics are very significant branches of etymology and the onomastic sciences in general. They are interdisciplinary in nature, associating, among others, historical linguistics with sociolinguistics, human geography, historical geography, cartography, topography, geology, landscape sciences, archaeology, and cultural anthropology.

Place names are a pervasive part of our languages, history, identity, cultural heritage, and societies and are essential components of our everyday life. Some of them date back to prehistoric times and are a sort of ‘living fossil’, allowing us to partly realise the scientific dream of giving a voice to our remote ancestors; others tell us the stories of human communities, both at the local level and by reflecting and documenting decisive historical events and moments.

A large corpus of scientific literature on toponymy and toponomastics is available, but most of the sources and studies (apart from a couple of very recent volumes), both at the intensive and extensive level, do not belong to collections or corpora of research easily and immediately accessible to scholars and students and are ‘scattered here and there’, across books and journals, libraries, and different languages. Moreover, many works focus on specific local contexts or on thematic ‘niches’, which make them not less significant than they are, but aimed at a ‘selected’ readership and not able to provide their ‘audiences’ with a comprehensive view of what toponymy is, especially at the diachronic level.

Because of this, research is still urgently needed on place names in contact areas from all over the world and from different chronological contexts (e.g., toponymic processes triggered by settlement dynamics in prehistoric times and/or in border areas between two different language families), both at the qualitative level (e.g., possible delineation of prehistoric population dynamics through the reconstruction of specific etymologies of localised place names) and at the quantitative level (e.g., possible discovery and classification of large toponymic systems involving the same, original naming process).

Another theme of profound interest is represented by the description and reconstruction of place names and toponymic systems in aboriginal and indigenous territories, especially in the (too) many areas of the world where the local languages are still undocumented and, therefore, endangered. This also opens up a window on oral traditions and cultural identities which, especially in those contexts, have an active and prolific part in the (place) naming processes.

The links between toponymy and human geography are self-evident, as well as the connections with historical geography and with what is called today socio-onomastics. These ‘sister-disciplines’ of toponymy represent a relatively new thematic territory, at the interdisciplinary level, which needs to be thoroughly explored.