The author studies the Old and Middle Hungarian toponymic corpus of Ugocsa, the northeastern county in historical Hungary. The corpus on which the work is based consists of nearly 2,000 data. The primary goal of the research is to prove that the linguistic features of the toponyms of the county refer to the presence of…
Territorial differences in the structure of microtoponyms have hardly been studied in toponomastics, therefore the author of this study seeks an answer to the question of whether there exist boundaries marking off different phenomena, or onomastic dialects in toponymic systems. The author analyses toponyms from functional-semantic and lexical-morphological perspectives. She also applies a system based…
Geographical common words, as expressions marking places, are of central importance to the lexicon of any language, which is also true of Hungarian, because it is only these elements that can identify a certain type of locations. The research of geographical common words is especially significant in Hungarian, because they belong to that group of…
Toponyms of the Carpathian basis have been collected by Hungarian toponymists and made available both to researchers and the general public since the beginning of the 19 th century. Research into and publication of the toponyms of Hajdú-Bihar and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Counties have been undertaken by linguists working at the University of Debrecen and the College…
Geographical appellatives (common words) as phrases denoting places constitute one of the fundamental sets of the Hungarian vocabulary and name system (or of the vocabularies and name systems of any other language), since no other elements are suitable for referring to classes of (geographical) objects and places. Understandably, the analysis of geographical common words has…
The present book is the first part of a three-volume series. The author analyses place names of Tapolcafő, a small village in Transdanubia with a population of 1,000 and a territory of 15 km2. Laid out in dictionary format, the book demonstrates the historical and present-day toponyms of the settlement. The entries contain all the…
In the introduction to the study 3 detailed maps demonstrate accurate cartographical data on the German population and the area covered by its dialects in the area. In the introduction the reader will also find information about the structure and historical development of Hungarian place names. The author goes on to expound the fundamental differences…
The volume presents the results of onomatosystematic observations of the connection between a present-day multilingual onomastic corpus and their “users”. At the same time, new aspects are raised for conclusions that can be drawn from onomastic corpora of previous periods. The corpus mentioned above is a collection system of of present-day toponyms, included in Baranya…
