This paper deals with lexical-semantic categories of place names in Bulgaria which distinguish from the other categories of toponyms by some motivation-semantic characteristics. On the basis of the origin of the place names ...

The aim of the paper was to give some notes about Polish linguists who celebrated the jubilee of their private, academic and scientific life, concentrating particularly on the onomastic field of their work.

The aim of the article is to profile research directions of the Slovak and the Czech toponymy which consist of: research direction focused on collecting toponymy; system-linguistic research direction, research direction ...

Semantic analysis of new housing names can show image of the modern Pole’s dream home contained in it. It should be beautifully surrounded by nature, sunny, quiet, giving a feeling of luxury and belonging to a better world. ...

In the following article, the author wants to answer the question of whether and in what way names – based on examples of toponyms – should be described in the general dictionaries of the Polish language. The problem of ...

The names of the settlements in Gaul, changed by the Romans along with their conquest of the land, have been used to show the political function of toponyms. Adaptation of name forms to the language of the conquerors was ...

The Slovak anoikonyms (minor place names) are recently being processed in the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava by conception created at the Department of Dialectology in the Institute ...

The aim of the paper is to present some onomastic phenomena of theoretic and formal relations between two onimic categories, chrematonyms and toponyms, especially microtoponyms and macrotoponyms. The author tries to formulate ...