PT Journal
AU Benitez Rodriguez, GS
TI Word formation in the toponymy of Lanzarote: linguistics, language, and territory II
SO Romanica Olomucensia
PY 2018
BP 1
EP 20
VL 30
IS 1
DI 10.5507/ro.2018.001
DE humanity; territory; toponymy; word formation; statistics study; Lanzarote
AB From the perspective of linguistics as a discipline and, in particular, of the need humans have to name the spaces of the territory where they live in order, among other reasons, to distinguish them from others, a study of word formation in the toponymy of the island of Lanzarote is presented. Methodologically, it starts from the most complete corpus that currently exists of the place names of the island and it is focused on the lexical units that compose them, among which four types of word formations, with their corresponding subtypes, will be distinguished: simple, derived, compound, and mixed. The results are measured in absolute and relative data of the different lexical units, as well as the repetitions of the same term: this will allow the establishment of the comparison not only of toponymic creation procedures, but also of the triumph of some signs over others with similar linguistic functions. The conclusions show a clear predominance of monosuffixal derivation compared to other lexicogenic mechanisms, a great wealth of word formation mechanisms, signs, and peculiar combinations that reflect singularity and originality, two features that define and characterize, in their geographic variety, a way of naming and, therefore, of being and feeling.
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