Place-names of the Carloway Registry, Isle of Lewis
This work is an analysis of the Gaelic place-nomenclature of the Carloway Registry, an area of about 150 square kilometers on the west coast of the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Intensive research in the field has produced nearly 3000 names, and these are dealt with individually in a gazetteer of the place-names (Volume 2) covering pronunciation, documentation and location, as well as questions of meaning and derivation. A description of various aspects of the Carloway Registry (topographic, economic, linguistic etc. ) is given in the Introduction (Volume 1, section 1) defining the nature of the area from which the names are drawn. The remaining sections of Volume 1 form an analysis of the nomenclature as a whole, in terms of structure, form, lexis and chronology. Sections 2-5 deal primarily with name-structure (prefaced by a discussion on questions of the origin and function of place-names); here the important distinctions between syntactical, onomastic and semantic treatments are observed. Consequent upon this detailed examination of name-structure, a clear picture of the development of the nomenclature is achieved. Sections 6-9 contribute to a description of the forms of names, studying patterns
Cox, Richard Anthony Victor
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Place-names of the Carloway Registry, Isle of Lewis. This work is an analysis of the Gaelic place-nomenclature of the Carloway Registry, an area of about 150 square kilometers on the west coast of the Island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Intensive research in the field has produced nearly 3000 names, and these are dealt with individually in a gazetteer of the place-names (Volume 2) covering pronunciation, documentation and location, as well as questions of meaning and derivation. A description of various aspects of the Carloway Registry (topographic, economic, linguistic etc. ) is given in the Introduction (Volume 1, section 1) defining the nature of the area from which the names are drawn. The remaining sections of Volume 1 form an analysis of the nomenclature as a whole, in terms of structure, form, lexis and chronology. Sections 2-5 deal primarily with name-structure (prefaced by a discussion on questions of the origin and function of place-names); here the important distinctions between syntactical, onomastic and semantic treatments are observed. Consequent upon this detailed examination of name-structure, a clear picture of the development of the nomenclature is achieved. Sections 6-9 contribute to a description of the forms of names, studying patterns
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