Investigating hill toponyms and their use as medieval settlement-names.

研究山地名及其作为中世纪定居点名称的用途。

• 批准号: 2606744
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2606744
• 关键词: Investigating; hill; toponyms; their; use

A very large proportion of English settlements are named from landscape features, using specialised and nuanced vocabulary. Focusing on a major subset of this corpus, place-names referring to hills, my research will explore the processes by which medieval settlements (which could vary in morphology, status, function and so on) came to be associated with and acquire the names of precisely - and often subtly - defined topography. Following a systematic national survey, case-studies will be selected to compare patterns from, for example, Yorkshire in the historic Danelaw, Gloucestershire in the South West, and the Scottish borders. Targeting select groups of names - including Old English (or Old Norse) berg, Old English dun, hoh, hlawand Old Norse haugr - ensures an in-depth but also feasible study. The research requires collation and analysis of historic linguistic material. I am proficient in Old English, Old Norse and Medieval Latin, with some Middle Welsh and Irish. I have proven palaeographical skills, and have worked for the English Place-Name Society (EPNS) collecting place-name forms from medieval and early modern documents in The National Archives.

使用专业和细微的词汇，很大一部分英语定居点以景观功能命名。我的研究专注于这个语料库的主要子集，指的是丘陵的名称，将探索中世纪定居点（可能在形态，地位，功能等方面有所不同）的过程与精确的形象相关联并获得了定义的地形。经过一项系统的全国调查，将选择案例研究，以比较例如在历史悠久的丹妮拉（Danelaw）的约克郡（Yorkshire），西南地区的格洛斯特郡（Gloucestershire）和苏格兰边界。针对精选的名称组 - 包括古老的英语（或旧北欧）Berg，古老的英语Dun，Hoh，Hlawand Old Norse Haugr-可确保深入研究，但也可行的研究。该研究需要对历史语言材料进行整理和分析。我精通古老的英语，古老的北欧和中世纪拉丁语，其中有一些中间威尔士和爱尔兰语。我已经经过证明了古学技能，并为英国名人社会（EPNS）工作，从国家档案馆中的中世纪和早期现代文档收集了地名形式。