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.

很大一部分英国定居点是根据景观特征命名的，使用专业且细致的词汇。我的研究将重点关注这个语料库的一个主要子集，即指代山丘的地名，探索中世纪定居点（在形态、地位、功能等方面可能有所不同）与精确（通常是微妙）定义的地形名称相关联并获得其名称的过程。在进行系统的全国调查后，将选择案例研究来比较来自历史悠久的丹麦法区的约克郡、西南部的格洛斯特郡和苏格兰边境的模式。针对选定的名称组 - 包括古英语（或古挪威语）berg、古英语 dun、hoh、hlaw 和古挪威语 haugr - 确保进行深入且可行的研究。这项研究需要对历史语言材料进行整理和分析。我精通古英语、古挪威语和中世纪拉丁语，还有一些中古威尔士语和爱尔兰语。我拥有久经考验的古文字学技能，并曾在英国地名协会 (EPNS) 工作，从国家档案馆的中世纪和早期现代文献中收集地名形式。