Table of Contents

Preface
List of figures
List of abbreviations
The contributors
1: Carole Hough: Introduction
Part I: Onomastic Theory
2: Willy Van Langendonck and Mark Van de Velde: Names and grammar
3: Staffan Nyström: Names and meaning
4: Elwys De Stefani: Names and discourse
Part II: Toponomastics
5: Simon Taylor: Methodologies in place-name research
6: Carole Hough: Settlement names
7: Svante Strandberg: River names
8: Peter Drummond: Hill and mountain names
9: Peder Gammeltoft: Island names
10: Julia Kuhn: Rural names
11: Bertie Neethling: Street names. A changing urban landscape
12: Stefan Brink: Transferred names and analogy in name-formation
Part III: Anthroponomastics
13: Edwin D. Lawson: Personal naming systems
14: Katharina Leibring: Given names in European naming systems
15: Patrick Hanks and Harry Parkin: Family names
16: Eva Brylla: Bynames and nicknames
17: Adrian Koopman: Ethnonyms
18: Ellen S. Bramwell: Personal names and anthropology
19: George Redmonds: Personal names and genealogy
Part IV: Literary Onomastics
20: Grant W. Smith: Theoretical foundations of literary onomastics
21: Bertie Neethling: Names in songs. A comparative analysis of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire and Christopher Torr's Hot Gates
22: Birgit Falck-Kjällquist: Genre-based approaches to names in literature
23: Karina van Dalen-Oskam: Corpus-based approaches to names in literature
24: Paul Cavill: Language-based approaches to names in literature
Part V: Socio-onomastics
25: Terhi Ainiala: Names in society
26: Emilia Aldrin: Names and identity
27: Guy Puzey: Linguistic landscapes
28: Laura Kostanski: Toponymic attachment
29: Irma Taavitsainen and Andreas H. Jucker: Forms of address
30: Katarzyna Aleksiejuk: Pseudonyms
31: Paula Sjöblom: Commercial names
Part VI: Onomastics and Other Disciplines
32: Richard Jones: Names and archaeology
33: Serge Brédart: Names and cognitive psychology
34: Margaret Scott: Names and dialectology
35: Peder Gammeltoft: Names and geography
36: Gillian Fellows-Jensen: Names and history
37: Richard Coates: Names and historical linguistics
38: Berit Sandnes: Names and language contact
39: Andreas Teutsch: Names and law
40: Alison Grant: Names and lexicography
41: Kay Muhr: Place-names and religion. A study of Early Christian Ireland
Part VII: Other Types of Names
42: Guy Puzey: Aircraft names
43: Katharina Leibring: Animal names
44: Marc Alexander: Astronomical names
45: Adrian Koopman: Names of dwellings
46: Richard Coates: Railway locomotive names and train names
47: Malcolm Jones: Ship names
References
Index

About the Author

Carole Hough is Professor of Onomastics at the University of Glasgow, where she has lectured for nearly 20 years. She is a historical linguist with particular interests in the development of the English language and the role of name evidence. She has published extensively on name studies and other topics, and has served as President of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences and Convener of the Scottish Place-Name Society. She is currently President of the
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Vice-President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, and a Council Member of the English Place-Name Society.

Reviews

a judicious synthesis covering a wide range of onomastic areas and it goes well beyond the historic-philological approach of traditional onomastic studies. Professor Hough is to be congratulated for having assembled a team of experts to produce a work of reference which will be most useful to professional onomasts and non-specialists alike.
*John Insley, European Romantic Review*

There is no better single guide to the range, quality and potential of current onomastic research.
*Peter McClure, Journal of the English Place-Name Society*

...likely to become one of the standard works of reference and, in fact, a must-have for everyone interested in the science of names and naming. It works both as a tool for individual researchers and as additional reading material in classes on onomastics and related fields.
*Peter Backhaus, Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo, Linguist*