Open AccessTHE DIALOGUE OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN BASQUE PLACE NAMES
Author(s) -
Olga Chesnokova,
Педро Леонардо Талавера-Ибарра
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
iberoamerikanskie tetradi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-5219
pISSN - 2409-3416
DOI - 10.46272/2409-3416-2016-2-72-76
Subject(s) - toponymy , witness , linguistics , character (mathematics) , dialogic , feature (linguistics) , history , literature , philosophy , art , geometry , mathematics
Presently, Basque toponymy comes out as the result of a dialogue between cultures and languages inside the original territory of Basqueland, as well as the result of a dialogue with the regions historically tied to Euskadi. The toponymy also includes Basque names in other lands, a presence that bears witness to a Basque expansion. This feature allows us to apply to the entire corpus of Basque toponymy a methodology that estab-lishes its dialogic and associative ties as well as its semiotic parameters. In view of the agglutinative character of the Basque language, it is possible to clearly define, from a historic perspective, the topoformative elements and their limits. Nowadays, on the other hand, an important characteristic of Basque toponymy is the pres-ence of duplicate names, a process explained by both an official policy and the standardization and revival of Basque language and literature.