Microtoponyms of Telafer and Language Study
Project no. 210 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
The thesis "Microtoponyms of Telafer and Their Language Analysis" is a microtopological study on 373 places’ names (microtoponyms) which were collected from the villages of ‘Telafer’ County. The introduction to the thesis consists of a section that briefly discusses about the subject of the thesis, its purpose, limit, methods, and the history of ‘Telafer’ (position, importance, ethnic structure). In the first part of the study, we have classified the places in terms of their types; such as oykonyms (populated areas), astionyms (city names), oronyms (mountain names), horonyms (hand names), dromonyms (road names), agronyms (bond names), hydronyms (water names), helonyms (swamp names), urbonyms (urban names) and ekklezionyms (grandfather names). In the second part of the study, we have analyzed the microtoponyms in the study in terms of the meanings of the names, given reasons and presented the traditions of giving places’ names according to the lexical-semantic classification. In the third chapter of the study, the microtoponyms in this study were analyzed according to their phonetic and morphological characteristics. Finally, a dictionary was prepared based on the meanings of the geographical terms in this study. In conclusion, general assessment was made based on the obtained information and findings.