Name structures and name survival

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Abeen the Big Tree: place-names on the periphery

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Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus: a new resource for investigating metaphor in names

The AHRC-funded ‘Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus’ project has traced the development of metaphor in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day using the unique evidence base of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. The Historical Thesaurus organises the contents of the OED semantically, making it possible to see how vocabulary for any given concept has developed over time. One of the major outputs of the Mapping Metaphor project is the online Metaphor Map, which can be used to investigate metaphor in names and is freely available at: http://mappingmetaphor.arts.gla.ac.uk/

On homonymy and polysemy in place-names

The linguistic term homonymy is used within toponomastics to refer to place-names with the same modern form but different origins. Examples include Oxton, Newton and Maryburgh in various parts of the British Isles, and Cambridge in various parts of the world. However, homonymy is random, whereas place-name doublets are motivated in a variety of ways, some of them closer to the linguistic phenomenon of polysemy. The four examples cited above each illustrates a different process of development. Recent work within linguistics has focused on the interface between homonymy and polysemy, leading to new insights that may also be relevant to onomastics. The broad terms homonymy and polysemy are inadequate to express the range of relationships represented by place-name doublets

Silverdale in Lancashire: the place-name and the hoard

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Scots in the community: place-names and social networking

This paper reports on the project Scots Words and Place-names (SWAP), which is designed to explore the innovative potential of integrated online community engagement methods in the study of language and of placenames. Funded from March to November 2011 by JISC (Joint Information Systems Network), it is a collaboration between the University of Glasgow Enroller Project, Scottish Language Dictionaries and the Scottish Place-Name Society. The project aims to engage the public in an exploration of language use in present-day Scotland, focusing on the Scots vernacular

An online resource for Berwickshire place-names

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The migration of Old English to Scotland: place-name evidence for early Northumbrian settlement in Berwickshire

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The place-name Cockley Cley in Norfolk

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The Berwickshire place-name resource

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