Mikrotoponimia i makrotoponimia. Problematyka wstępna
Microtoponymy and Macrotoponymy. Preliminary Problems

Author(s): Artur Gałkowski, Renata Gliwa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Baltic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: microtoponyms;macrotoponyms;toponymy;toponomastics;onymy;onomastics
Summary/Abstract: This book under the title Microtoponymy and macrotoponymy. Preliminary problems is the first volume of three-volume treatise in the series Nomina loci created and published in the onomastic center in Lodz after the 18th International and Polish Onomastic Conference, abroad and comprehensive project supported by over one hundred Polish, Slavic and non-Slavic authors. The next two books in the series will be published under the titles: Microtoponyms and macrotoponyms in communication and literature and Geographical names in physical space. The present volume starts from the chapter that introduces the general and theoretical problems of microtoponymy and macrotoponymy as the fundamental categories of geonymy in its oico- and anoiconymyc dimension and focuses on the principal theses discussed within the book. The series of publications Nomina loci is supported by the Commission of Slavic Onomastics at the International Committee of Slavists, which promotes the latest achievements in onomastic research both in Slavic area and in other regions of the world, in all basic subdisciplines of onomastics: toponomastics, anthroponomastics, chrematonomastics, literary onomastics and onomastic theory. This first book Microtoponymy and macrotoponymy. Preliminary problems deals with the theses of toponomastic studies with necessary references to other areas of onomastics, what seems crucial from the theoretical point of view.

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