 | - Book Title: English place-names
- Author: Kenneth Cameron
- ISBN: 0713408413
- Publisher: B. T. Batsford
- Year Published: 1979
- Our Price: £14.30 GBP ($28.31 USD)
- Description: Batsford 1979 third edition hardcover in dust jacket: 258 pages: b/w photographic illustrations and maps. Synopsis: A study of English place names in which the author, Professor Cameron discusses the technique of place name study ; Celtic place names ; The Anglo Saxon kingdoms ; The early English settlement names ; Scandinavian place names ; The influence of France ; Place-names and archaeology ; Street names ; The names of roads , rivers, hills, valley’s and woods ;and names with pagan and Christian associations. The work includes a comprehensive appendix of the common elements in English place names, and a bibliography . Professor Kenneth Cameron , Collancz lecturer, Holder of the Gollancz Prize , Honorary Director and Honorary Secretary of the English Place- names Society; and Fellow of the British Academy, also published “Place names of Derby-shire” in 3 volumes in 1959 . Contents of “ English Place Names “ include chapters entitled - Pronunciation of Old English and Old and Norse spellings; The technique of place- name study ; Types of place name formations ; Celtic place names and River names ; The Anglo Saxon kingdoms, the English Shires, Hundreds and Wapentakes; The earliest English settlement names; Scandinavian place names ; The influence of French on English place names ; Prepositions and adverbs in place-names ; Place names and archaeology ; Place names with a pagan mythological and popular associations ; Place names with Christian associations; Place names illustrating social and legal customs ; English settlement names; Roads and ways ; Rivers, river crossings and marshland ; Hills and valleys ; Woods clearings and open land ; Street names ; Minor names and field names ; Common elements in English place names . Condition: very clean and good / as new.
- Condition: Used- Very Good
- Dustcover: Yes
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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