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Toponyms in Phrasemes: on the Deonymisation of Proper Names and the Reconstruction of Etymon
- Authors: Evdokimova M.S.1, Tsvetaeva E.N.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 3(897) (2025)
- Pages: 90-96
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/286501
- ID: 286501
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Abstract
This paper aims to understand how toponyms function as parts of idioms in German. To that end, we use the overarching diachronic approach, as well as structural-semantic modelling, phraseological identification, comparative and etymohistorical analysis. The paper is of relevance as the rapidly growing field of semantics pays more and more attention to phraseology. The study takes a particular interest in deonymisation of toponyms in phrasemes. In this paper, we take a look at one common European idiom to showcase how useful the structural semantic modelling can be when analysing universal and national toponym containing idioms. It is also shown that there is a need to improve the method further taking research specific contexts into account.
About the authors
Mariya Sergeevna Evdokimova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: masha.mary.evdokimova@mail.ru
Postgraduate Student, Lecturer at the Department of Grammar and History of German, Faculty of German
Russian FederationElena Nikolaevna Tsvetaeva
Moscow State Linguistic University
Email: elenatsvetaeva@yandex.ru
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of Lexicology and Stylistics of German,
Faculty of German
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