ON THE PHENOMENON OF TOPONYMIC PHANTOM

ON THE PHENOMENON OF TOPONYMIC PHANTOM

Author:  I.A. Kondakova

Abstract:  The article considers one of the ways of developing the meaning of a toponym – its desemantisation that results in the 'phantom' meaning. Toponymic phantoms are free from denoting geographic coordinates, they are able to denote any place or situation or quality: their meaning is situational and discourse-dependent. It looks like almost any toponym can turn into a phantom, still this ability is mostly typical of culturally important place-names (Rome and London), which are characterized with a high degree of phraseologisation (phantoms are mostly met within paremiological or phraseological units).

Keywords:  toponym, place-name, detoponymisation, desematisation, toponymic phantom, phraseological unit.

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