Are City Transport Route Names Relevant to Onomastics?

The article observes city transport route names and their place within the proper names system. The author divides the collected material (transport route names mainly from Russian and Polish-speaking cities) into several groups, characterizing each of them and analyzing the motivation of most of th...

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Main Author: Piotr Tomasik
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2012-12-01
Series:Voprosy Onomastiki
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Online Access:http://onomastics.ru/sites/default/files/VO_2012-2(13)/Tomasik-4.pdf
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Summary:The article observes city transport route names and their place within the proper names system. The author divides the collected material (transport route names mainly from Russian and Polish-speaking cities) into several groups, characterizing each of them and analyzing the motivation of most of the onyms. The examples cited in the article illustrate the variety of route names.
ISSN:1994-2400
1994-2451