Vol. 63 No. 4 (2015)
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The How of Toponymy: A Comment on Tent’s “Approaches to Research in Toponymy”

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  • Joshua Nash
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2015.1118983

Published 2015-10-02

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  • Joseph Mitchell,
  • names and style,
  • names and narrative,
  • names and prosody,
  • names and ontology,
  • New York City names,
  • Robeson County (NC) names,
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Abstract

This comment which considers several ways the how of toponymy is an addendum to Tent’s (2015) where, who, when, what, and why of toponymic research. Summarizing Tent’s claims leads to identifying less–mainstream yet theoretically pertinent research concerns central to the how of toponymics.

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