Urban intralinear objects of South-West England

Abstract

The article examines the motives and principles of nomination of godonyms of 8 urban agglomerates of South-West England. To analyze the corpus of godonyms, a lexical-semantic classification and a scheme for identifying cultural and linguistic motivations recorded in the godonymic system of English cities were used. It was found that the semantic principle of nomination is more widespread. Among the semantic orienting godonyms, external ones prevail, in the corpus of semantic characterizing names - phytofaunistic ones. The semiotic principle of nomination is less widespread than the semantic one. The dominant semiotic names are memorative. Among them, nomination by the surnames of landowners and homeowners prevails. Depending on the motivational characteristics and the degree of quantitative representation, godonyms are divided into: togodonims, anthropogodonims, characterizing godonyms, phytogodonims, nominations related to human practical activities, landscape godonyms, zoogodonyms and godonyms conditioned by noble titles