Motivation vs Remotivation as a Source of Ethnocultural Information (Based on Place Names of Karelia)

• Published in: Вопросы Ономастики
• Main Author: Irma I. Mullonen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2019
• Subjects: balto-finnic languages; language contacts; toponymy; toponymic legends; motivation; remotivation; karelia; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Akan; karelian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2019.16.3.031; https://doaj.org/article/2055c501bcc14b61bd58bbd8adf53265

The article analyzes the correlation between remotivation a toponym acquires in the course of its existence and its initial motivation, as well as the ways these processes reflect the ethnolinguistic, historical, and cultural contexts they were driven by. The lost original motivations have been rest...