37.1420, Diss: Ibero-Romance, Romance; Portuguese; Applied Linguistics, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics: Agostinho Salgueiro: "Topónimos no espaço da CPLP: o Vocabulário Toponímico"

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Subject: 37.1420, Diss: Ibero-Romance, Romance; Portuguese; Applied Linguistics, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics: Agostinho Salgueiro: "Topónimos no espaço da CPLP: o Vocabulário Toponímico"

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Date: 13-Apr-2026
From: Agostinho Salgueiro [agostinhosalgueiro at uc.pt]
Subject: Topónimos no espaço da CPLP: o Vocabulário Toponímico


Institution: Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Degree Date: 2016

Dissertation Title: Topónimos no espaço da CPLP: o Vocabulário
Toponímico

Dissertation URL: https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/handle/10071/12495

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)

Language Family(ies): Ibero-Romance
                      Romance

Dissertation Director(s): José Soares da Silva Neves; Margarita Maria
Correia Ferreira

Dissertation Abstract:

Toponymy is the branch of Onomastics that studies place names. From
among the subfields in Toponymy, in this work we focus on standardized
toponymic repositories: toponymic lexical data bases. An adequate
standardization of the major toponymy in the CPLP area assumes special
relevance, as it embodies a normalizing function and is characterized
by its enlarged scope. The Vocabulário Toponímico (VT – toponymic
wordlist), studied here, is a digital toponymic resource, a
specialized vocabulary that is a relevant part of the Vocabulário
Ortográfico Comum da Língua Portuguesa (VOC – the common Portuguese
language wordlist). With nearly 70000 standardized vocables, the VT
includes every toponym corresponding to an administrative division in
the participating CPLP countries – almost exclusively endonyms –, as
well as the name for every country and capital in the world – a large
part of which are exonyms. In this dissertation we analyzed the
methodology used to gather the main entries of the wordlist, as well
as the sociolinguistic relevance of toponymy, in general, and of a
resource like the VT, in particular. We examined each subset of
toponyms, taking into account the hierarchical relations between the
realities they denote, their geographic distribution and the
derivational relations between toponyms and demonyms. We concluded
that the standardization of toponyms and the possibility of systematic
verification of toponymic relations are of major importance to the
description of a living language, supporting unambiguous geographical
references and the consolidation of identity roles.



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