Table of Contents

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.

Promotional Information

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

About the Author

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. Francesco Cavallaro is an associate professor in linguistics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests are in sociolinguistics and the social aspects of bilingualism, especially of minority groups in multilingual contexts.

Reviews

'This book brings together ideas that conceptualise the practices of place naming. Grounded in a multidisciplinary fashion – from sociolinguistics to geography – this volume is innovative as it examines place names according to their relations with histories, cultures, and societies in order to understand their historical and linguistic origins as well as the role they play in people's everyday lives.' Remus Creţan, West University of Timișoara, Romania