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

很大一部分英国定居点都是以景观特征命名的，使用专门和细致入微的词汇。集中在这个语料库的一个主要子集，地名指的是山，我的研究将探索的过程中，中世纪的定居点（可能在形态，地位，功能等方面有所不同）来与获得精确的名称-往往是微妙的-定义地形。在进行系统的全国调查之后，将选择案例研究来比较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界等地的模式。针对选定的名称组-包括古英语（或古挪威语）贝格，古英语dun，hoh，hlaw和古挪威语haugr -确保深入但可行的研究。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，还有一些中威尔士语和爱尔兰语。我已经证明了古地理技能，并曾为英国地名协会（EPNS）收集地名形式从中世纪和早期现代文件在国家档案馆。

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.