Toponymic picture of scotland: Thesaurus approach

Abstract

Today proper names are studied by linguists, geographers, historians, ethnographers, culturologists, lingvistic study of the country experts, literary critics. The toponymy helps to restore lines of the historical past, to define moving borders, to outline areas of former distribution of languages. The increasing attention is paid to the description of a toponymic picture of certain regions, in this case Scotland. In this regard, there is a problem of development of a technique of introduction of regional approach to studying of toponymics. Thesaurus approach is the important direction of system studying of toponyms. Classification of macrotoponyms and microtoponyms, classification of toponymic nicknames and figurative names, classifications according to a structural-grammatical, morphological principle are presented in the article.