Open AccessMikrotoponimia Kowalewic Nowych i Kowalewic Włościańskich w powiecie pułtuskim
Author(s) -
Magda Głogowska
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
prace językoznawcze
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2450-0801
pISSN - 1509-5304
DOI - 10.31648/pj.4556
Subject(s) - adverbial , geography , possessive , nomenclature , forestry , toponymy , archaeology , linguistics , ecology , philosophy , biology , taxonomy (biology)
Kowalewice Włościańskie and Kowalewice Nowe are two villages in Masoviaregion, district of Pułtusk, municipality of Świercze. They are inhabited mostlyby farmers who inherit their farms. The total of 172 names of fields, meadows,forests, ponds, ditches and roads were collected in a field study.As a result of subsequent semantic analysis the following types of nameshave been distinguished: topographic (including locating, directional and descriptivenames), possessive and culture-related. The majority (67%) of the analysedmicrotoponyms are topographic. Among these field, meadow and road namesare the most numerous. Possesive names constitue an important part (30%)of all the collected names. The least represented are culture-related names, whichconstitute 3% of the collected microtoponyms.Among the microtoponyms from Kowalewice Włościańskie and KowalewiceNowe there are primary (zero-affixation) and compound names, the latter beingthe largest group, which constitutes 81% of all the collected microtoponyms. Thenames constructed as adverbial phrases are the most productive type within thisgroup. The primary names constitute 19% of the collected names of landscapefeatures.