Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics
Topic
The research on oikonymy in relation to the settlement history
PhD. program
Name of the supervisor
PhDr. Milan Harvalík, Ph.D.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Arts Comenius University Bratislava
Annotation
The topic is interdisciplinary, therefore historical knowledge and orientation in Latin, Hungarian and German are welcome. Oikonymic records (including possibly extinct names) from a particular region from the earliest times to the present will be analysed and classified according to the method of small types in order to reveal the relationships between name structures, their temporal layers and areal distribution, and to reconstruct the settlement process. The origin and motivation of the names will also be explained.