Bagvalal place names as adverbs

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Argument Position ◽  
Spatial Function ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Nominal Morphology

Abstract In Bagvalal (East Caucasian), native place names show strongly reduced morphological inflection. They combine with spatial suffixes identical to those used on nouns and spatial adverbs and with attributive and plural suffixes identical to those of nominal genitive and plural and thus have mixed adverbial nominal morphology. Place names are unmarked in spatial function but marked in argument position. To occur in the latter, they require a nominal head with an abstract meaning such as ‘village’ or ‘place’. Bagvalal place names are syntactically adverbs rather than nouns. Considering syntax and morphology together, they constitute a morphosyntactic class intermediate between nouns and adverbs. Mixed properties of Bagvalal place names are functionally motivated. Place names are, first of all, locations (hence spatial inflection), but also territories associated with specific ethnic and sub-ethnic groups (hence attributive and plural inflection). I conclude by briefly reviewing evidence from some other East Caucasian languages, to show that Bagvalal is not an exception.

The linguistic situation in the territory of Andalusia

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. de Hoz
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Probable Role ◽  
Cultural Role

In antiquity present-day Andalusia was occupied by several different peoples, among whom the main cultural role was taken by the Tartessians, subsequently the Turdetani. The first part of this chapter aims to define the limits and variety of the different ethnic groups. Thereafter, the material available to study the languages of the region is analysed: inscriptions, place names, and personal names. This material is limited and poses numerous problems, but it enables us to define linguistic zones, to emphasize the plurilingual nature of the area, to detect the probable role of Phoenician as a lingua franca, and to draw attention to certain features of Turdetanian, the most widely spoken of the vernacular languages of the region.

The Native Place Names of Arctic America

Names ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-148
Author(s):  
Nils M. Holmer
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Native Place

scholarly journals A kisbábonyi cigányság helynévismerete

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsuzsa Szilágyi-Varga
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Target Group ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Hungarian Population ◽  
The Village

Knowledge of place names in the Roma community of Kisbábony (Băbeşti, Romania) The paper focusing on the field of name sociology can be seen as a continuation of the author’s previous works. The previously published studies deal with the knowledge of place names in the Hungarian population in Kisbábony (Băbeşti, Romania) and the cognitive mapping by the communities living there. The present paper primarily focuses on the knowledge of place name in the Roma community of Kisbábony. The findings rely on interview-based research the author conducted in the village. After characterizing the sociological features of the target group, questions regarding what percentage of the Hungarian toponymicon of the settlement is known in the local native Hungarian-speaking Roma community and on which factors the results depend are answered. The second part of the paper compares the knowledge of place names in the Roma and the Hungarian ethnic groups. In light of the collected and analysed data, it can be concluded that the knowledge of place names in the various social groups which live in the same settlement can be entirely different depending on certain extralinguistic factors.

“THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN ANY KARELIANS OR VEPS HERE”: MAIN FINDINGS OF A FIELD SURVEY IN LADVA VILLAGE, PRIONEZHSKY DISTRICT, THE REPUBLIC OF KARELIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 281-294
Author(s):  
V. P. Mironova ◽  
◽  
L. I. Ivanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The Past ◽  
Opposite Situation ◽  
The Republic

Russians and Baltic Finns have been neighbours in the Republic of Karelia for centuries. Furthermore, now totally Russian-speaking Zaonezhye and Prionezhye areas used to have a Karelian and Veps population. The vicinity and constant contacts reveal themselves clearly in the vocabulary, place names and culture of sub-ethnic groups of Russians, Veps, and Karelians. The Russian traces in Balto-Finnic languages and culture are the most obvious, and locals are not in dispute over the influence. An opposite situation is observed among contemporary Russian residents of Karelia, who have not only lost all connection to Karelians and Veps, but even refute the possibility of any contacts in the past.

Recording Native Place Names

1947 ◽  
Vol 109 (1/3) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
E. H. M. Clifford
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Native Place

The Native Place Names of Arctic America

Names ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-196
Author(s):  
Nils M. Holmer
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Native Place

scholarly journals Local ethnic groups of Anabar district: mapping of ethnonyms in order to preserve historical and cultural heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-481
Author(s):  
Viktoriya Filippova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
River Basins ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Topographic Maps ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Sakha Republic ◽  
Gis Technologies ◽  
Mixed Origin

Anabar district of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is a complex ethnocultural region, where toponyms of different eras coexist, which is explained by the dynamics of the ethnic composition of the population over thousands of years. Toponymy extent reflects the historical and geographical specifics of the region. On the map of the Anabar district, several toponymic layers are distinguished: Dolgan, evenki, Yakut and Russian. The study was funded by the Russian foundation of Basic Research (No. 20-09-00257), one of the tasks of which is to identify toponymic complexes—groups of place names that characterize the development of the studied territory, as well as to consider toponyms as objects of cultural heritage of the peoples inhabiting this region. In this study, using GIS technologies, the reconstruction of the settlement of local ethnic groups that lived in the territory of the Anabar district was carried out. Their borders were largely natural in nature and generally corresponded to river basins. It is established that the boundaries of the distribution areas of the genera went beyond the boundaries of the modern territory of the Anabar district. The main source of the material is a database of toponyms identified from 20 topographic maps (scale 1:200,000), covering the whole territory of the Anabar district. The article presents the results of mapping the areas of settlement of tribes and ethnotoponyms. first of all, these are ethnotoponyms formed from ethnonyms (khangalas, khatygyn, gala, aryyaat, barakh, sedeme, etc.). It is established that place name used to as a name for a group of farms of mixed origin (kuladintsy, omoldot). Comparison of the reconstructed area of settlement of tribes with the display of ethnonyms on the Anabar district’s map showed their insufficient presence in toponyms. This indicates a lack of preservation of ethnonyms.

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