A look at a list of newly created place names in a Spanish village: similarities and differences with the old toponyms
The present work is focused on toponyms of recent creation. These new place names have generally received less attention among scholars than those with a long history, which have often generated passionate debates and academic papers about their origins. The group analyzed here was discarded from th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Editorial Universidad de Sevilla
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Philologia Hispalensis |
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| Online Access: | https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/PH/article/view/3571 |
| Summary: | The present work is focused on toponyms of recent creation. These new place names have generally received less attention among scholars than those with a long history, which have often generated passionate debates and academic papers about their origins. The group analyzed here was discarded from the index list resulting from a toponymy survey made in the village of Gata (Cáceres) in 2014. They are less than one hundred years old, and do not appear to be registered as toponyms in any known written source. However, their analysis reveals that the necessity for a social community to give names to the places it inhabits, and the process for the creation of new toponyms has essentially not changed for centuries. |
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| ISSN: | 1132-0265 2253-8321 |