O przyczynach zmian formalno-semantycznych nazw miejscowości (na przykładzie ojkonimów z terenu ziemi lwowskiej)

Abstrakt

This paper entitled “On the Causes of Formal and Semantic Changes in the Names of Places (as Instanced by the Oiconisms from the Lvov Region)” collects and orders the linguistic and non-linguistic factors in the evolution of the map of names and settlements.

One of the most important external causes that affected not only the differences of names in meaning, but also in their formal aspect, was the historical state of linguistic and ethnic relations. It decides about the distinction of names with regard to their linguistic appropriation that is very important for the Lvov Region. These are the following modifications: a) changes and alternations within the same semantic type as a manifestation of the clash between Polish and Ukrainian derivational models; b) the acquirement of Polish properties, especially in the period from the mid-fourteenth to the sixteenth century; c) addideations; d) the removal of typically Polish forms, most obvious after 1945; e) elimination of non-Polish and “foreign” names, mainly German; f) other directive changes that did not mean a change in linguistic qualification.