On Toponymic Constructions as an Alternative to Naming Patterns in Describing Finnish Lake Names

This multidisciplinary study of Finnish lake names consists of five individually published articles preceded by a unified presentation of the major results. It starts with computational analysis of a massive onomastic corpus, which reveals a massive number of small groups of names that appear regularly near each other. Further on, cognitive linguistics proves to be a better theoretical framework for explaining these regularities than earlier, largely structuralist theories. At the same time, however, the study suggests some improvements to the underlying theories.

This multidisciplinary study of Finnish lake names consists of five
individually published articles preceded by a unified presentation of
the major results. It starts with computational analysis of a massive
onomastic corpus, which reveals a massive number of small groups of
names that appear regularly near each other. Further on, cognitive
linguistics proves to be a better theoretical framework for explaining
these regularities than earlier, largely structuralist theories. At
the same time, however, the study suggests some improvements to the
underlying theories.