Gondolatok a településnév-korrelációkról

Absztrakt

Reflections on settlement-name correlations  

The name adopting/name changing situation in which an existing settlement name, for various reasons, is secondarily extended with a distinctive addition, although already commented on several times in Hungarian and international onomastic literature, received a monographic discussion (A magyar településnevek korrelációs rendszerének alakulása a természetes névadás korszakában [‘The correlational system of Hungarian settlement names in the period of non-official place-naming practices’]; Budapest) only in 2010. The book, by Andrea Bölcskei, undertaking the wide range analysis of settlement-name correlations as well as the survey of the name users’ spatial orientation, primarily adopts a cognitive linguistic approach. This paper outlines my reflections, formulated whilst reading the book, on the linguistic features of the settlement-name correlations; on the settlement-historical and onomasociological factors behind the observed phenomenon. I suggest here that the system of non-official settlement-name correlations was in fact developed as a result of two distinct (settlement-) historical processes, and that these processes resulted in rather different linguistic features. In close connection, I also discuss how other (mainly historical, socioonomastic, sociopragmatic) considerations, in addition to a cognitive linguistic approach, could improve our current knowledge on settlement-name correlations.