Vol. 48 No. 3 (2000)
Research Article

Onomastics as an Interdisciplinary Study

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  • John Algeo,
  • Katie Algeo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/nam.2000.48.3-4.265

Published 2000-12-01

Copyright (c) 2000 Maney

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Abstract

Abstract

Onomastics, although an autonomous discipline, overlaps the subject matter of many other disciplines since name use is central to human activity. In its subfield of terminologies or nomenclatures; moreover, onomastics relates to every discipline, subject field, and activity that human beings pursue: We are a species that categorizes and labels. To illustrate this point, we consider briefly the interconnections of onomastics with a number of other disciplines and then look more particularly at the role of placename study as a cross-disciplinary activity.

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