Programme

Trends in Toponymy 4

Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15A George Square

University of Edinburgh

28 June-1 July 2010

Generously sponsored and supported by: Scottish Place-Name Society Comann Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba School of Scottish Studies Archives University of Edinburgh

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Day 1 – Monday 28 June

08:30-09:20 Registration

09:20-09:30 Welcome

09:30-10:30 Keynote Paper – Chair: Thomas Clancy Simon Taylor, University of Glasgow, Scotland Scottish Place-Names: The Cultural and Linguistic Challenge

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Session 1 – Chair: Carole Hough Terhi Ainiala, Research Institute for the Languages of Finland, Helsinki, Finland Attitudes towards Street Names in Helsinki Dan MacInnes, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada A Missing Referent: Gàidhlig/English Road Signs in the Former Gaeltachd Areas of Eastern Nova Scotia Jani Vuolteenaho, University of Helsinki, Finland Attitudes to Working-Class Inheritance, Gentrification, Bohemianism and Informal Toponyms as Their Stylistic Expressions: The Case of Kallio Inner City Neighbourhood

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 2 – Chair: Arne Kruse (Room 1) Thomas Owen Clancy, University of Glasgow, Scotland The Settlement Toponymy of Medieval South-West Scotland: Revisiting the Paradigms for baile, achadh, *trev and by Alan Macniven, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Old Norse borg in Islay Toponyms: The Place of Names, Etymologies and Semantics in Hebridean Settlement History Kay Muhr, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland Cultural Change and Names of Saints and Churches around Lough Neagh

Session 3 – Chair: Jani Vuolteenaho (Room 2) Carole Hough, University of Glasgow, Scotland From River-Names to Street-Names: Onomasticon and Lexicon in the History of English Manuela Cipri, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy Place Names from a Eurolinguistic and Intercultural Perspective Johanna Lehtonen, City Planning Department, City of Helsinki, Finland Street Names in Helsinki: 65 Years of Systematically ‘Naming Streets’ in Street Planning

15:00-15:20 Break

15:20-16:20 Session 4 – Chair: Margaret Mackay (Room 1) Katharina Leibring, Institute for Language and Folklore, Uppsala, Sweden Women’s First Names in Sweden 1650-1800: Why Such a Small Onomasticon? Malcolm T. Smith, Durham University, England Landscapes of Personal Naming among Irish Migrants to England and Wales in the Late 19C: Generational and Geographical Variation

Session 5 – Chair: Adrian Koopman (Room 2) Benjamin Foster, Board on Geographic Names, United States of America Russian Naming Practice in Abkhazia Johan Lubbe, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa Name-Changing in South Africa: A Historical Overview, with Specific Reference to the Period after 1994

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16:30-17:30 Reception offered by the Royal Norwegian Honorary Consulate General Chrystal Macmillan Building

17:30-18:00 Travel to Mary King’s Close (approx. 15 mins. on foot)

18:00-19:20 Visit to Mary King’s Close (in two groups)

Day 2 – Tuesday 29 June

09:00-10:30 Session 6 – Chair: Margaret Mackay Ian D. Clark, University of Ballarat, Australia Nineteenth Century Colonial Travellers to Victoria, Australia, and Their Preference for Aboriginal Place Names – An Exploration of This Stark Contrast with Immigrant Attitudes to Colonial Place Names Gwyn Jones, Welsh Language Board, Wales Standardizing the Place-Names of Wales Kaisa Rautio Helander, Sámi University College, Guovdageaidnu, Norway The Power of Administration in the Officialization of Indigenous Place Names in the Nordic Countries

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Keynote Paper – Chair: Carole Hough Laura Kostanski, Office of the Surveyor-General of Victoria, Australia Grampians – As Aussie as Shrimp on a Barbie: An Exploration of Toponymic Attachment

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Session 7 – Chair: Alan Macniven (Room 1) Mustafa Arslan & Fatih Mehmet Berk, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey Revealing the History of a Region by Place Names Pauls Balodis, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia What Has Left from Livonian Language in Latvian Anthroponymic System? Xavier Gouvert, University of Nancy, France Toponymy and Contact Linguistics: On Romance-Germanic Symbiosis in saltus Brixius (Burgundy) During Post-Ancient and Pre-Medieval Times

Session 8 – Chair: Laura Kostanski (Room 2) Marjut Männistö, University of Vaasa, Finland One Neighbourhood, Six Names. What, Why and When? Kristina Neumüller, Uppsala University, Sweden Competing Settlement Names Noora Rinkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland Toponyms’ Functions and Migrants’ Identities in a Conversation

14:30-15:00 Travel to Edinburgh Castle (approx. 25 mins. on foot)

15:00-16:00 Guided tour of Edinburgh Castle

16:00-17:50 Free time to explore the Castle independently or shop on the Royal Mile

17:50-18:30 Travel to Bernard Terrace (approx. 30 mins on foot)

18:30-19:30 Reception offered by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 16 Bernard Terrace

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Day 3 – Wednesday 30 June

09:00-10:30 Session 9 – Chair: Ellen Bramwell (Room 1) Adrian Koopman, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa The Zulu Names of Schools and Shops: Are these ‘Genuine’ Toponyms or Are They the Names of Institutions? Ellen Osterhaus, Purdue University, Indiana, United States of America Onomastic Trends in the Gendered Branding of Hygiene Products Justyna Walkowiak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Personal Names and Language Policy: Who Plans What Names for Whom and How?

Session 10 – Chair: Alan Macniven (Room 2) Andrea Bölcskei, Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary Contrastive Analysis of English and Hungarian Toponym Types Jonas Löfström, University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, France Criteria for Synchronic Toponym Analysis Valéria Tóth, University of Debrecen, Hungary Change Typology of Toponyms

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Session 11 – Chair: Ian Clark (Room 1) Erzsébet Győrffy, University of Debrecen, Hungary Slang Toponyms Éva Kovács, University of Debrecen, Hungary Toponyms Derived from Personal Names Anu Reponen, University of Helsinki, Finland Place Name Use and Linguistic Identity of Helsinkian Russian Speakers

Session 12 – Chair: Jacob King (Room 2) Laimute Balode, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia / University of Helsinki, Finland Livonian Traces in Latvian Hydronymy Alison Burns, University of Glasgow, Scotland Field Names of Aberdeenshire Elin Pihl, Uppsala University, Sweden Changes in Fieldnames from the 17

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Century to Today: A Study in Fieldnames in the Parish of Almunge, Sweden

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 13 – Chair: Kaisa Rautio Helander (Room 1) Carol Jean Léonard, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada The Elaboration of an All-Encompassing Corpus: A Complex of Toponymic Issues Specific to Minorities Keri Pagnozzi, Board on Geographic Names, United States of America Losing Beauty: The Plight of Language Diversity Alexander Pustyakov, University of Tartu, Estonia Reflection of Personal Names in Oikonyms of Mary El Republic

Session 14 – Chair: Mats Wahlberg (Room 2) James O. Butler, University of Glasgow, Scotland Naming Worlds: Literary Dystopian Toponymy Leif Nilsson, Institute for Language and Folklore, Uppsala, Sweden Place-Names and the Standard for Location Addresses in Sweden Riemer Reinsma, Netherlands Placenames Indicating the Number of Houses: At Which Point Did the Counter Stop, and Why So?

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15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-17:00 Session 15 – Chair: Arne Kruse (Room 1) Georgeta Cislaru, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France Country Names: Official and Common Forms in Use Betina Schnabel-Le Corre, University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, France Particularities in Toponyms Compared to Common Nouns in German Jean-Louis Vaxelaire, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris, France The Name Bièvre Translates to ‘Beaver River’ in English: Etymology and Meaning of Toponyms

Session 16 – Chair: David Munro (Room 2) Leo Dillon, Office of the Geographer and Global Issues, Department of State, United States of America Processing a Multilingual World of Toponyms for the English Language User: The Experience of the United States Board on Geographic Names Marcus Allsup, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, United States of America The Foreign Names Gazetteer Data Base: GEOnet Names Server Peter Jordan, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria Criteria for the Use of Exonyms

17:00-18:00 Optional walking tour of the Old Town (depending on weather)

18:00-19:30 The Place-Name Debate, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge Participants: Bruce Gittings, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh (Chair) Jacob King, Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba Peadar Morgan, Bòrd na Gàidhlig David Munro, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names

N.B. This event must be booked separately and places are limited. Please visit http://www.nls.uk/events/index.html to book.

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Day 4 – Thursday 1 July

09:00-10:30 Session 17 – Chair: Guy Puzey

Maimu Berezkina, University of Oslo, Norway Commercial Names and Linguistic Landscape in One of Oslo’s Multicultural Districts Peter K. W. Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mixed Signals: Names in the Linguistic Landscape Provided by Different Agencies in Singapore Paul Tempan, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland Road- and Street-Names in Northern Ireland and Approaches to Their Gaelicisation

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Session 18 – Chair: Carole Hough

Ellen S. Bramwell, University of Glasgow, Scotland Personal Naming and Community Practice in the Western Isles of Scotland Aline Francoeur, University of Ottawa, Canada French and English Nicknaming Practices in Canadian Ice Hockey Michael Walsh, University of Sydney, Australia Introduced Personal Names for Australian Aborigines: A Range of Choices from Appropriate to Quite Poor

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 19 – Chair: Terhi Ainiala

Andrew Jennings, Centre for Nordic Studies, NAFC Marine Centre UHI, Scalloway, Scotland Keeping the Romance Alive – Aspects of New Shetland Naming Staffan Nyström, Uppsala University, Sweden Naming Parks, Foot-Paths and Small Bridges in a Multicultural Suburban Area Annette C. Torensjö, Lantmäteriet, Gävle, Sweden Improper Place-Names: Do They Exist?

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-17:00 Session 20 – Chair: Doreen Waugh

Laura Carmel Diver, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Conflicting Attitudes and Policies Regarding Bilingual Signage in Occitan France Guy Puzey, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Counter-Hegemonies and Attitudes to Place-Names in Alba, (Ny-)Noreg and Padania Maggie Scott, University of Salford, England Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon

17:00-17:30 Summing up – Chair: Carole Hough

17:45-18:45 Reception offered by the School of Scottish Studies Archives Teviot Row House, Bristo Square

18:45-19:00 Travel to Grassmarket (approx. 15 mins. on foot)

19:00 Conference dinner Metro Restaurant, Apex International Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket

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Day 5 – Friday 2 July Optional pre-booked excursion to Fife Departure from Edinburgh (north side of George Square) 08:45 Return to Edinburgh approx. 18:00 / 19:00 Our guide: Simon Taylor, University of Glasgow

For those attending the excursion, please remember to bring:

Rainwear (or sunglasses…)

Money for lunch / a packed lunch

A camera if you have one

A sense of adventure!

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Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square

National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge

Mary King’s Close

Edinburgh Castle

Metro Restaurant, Apex International Hotel, 31-35 Grassmarket

Teviot

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 16 Bernard Terrace

Friday excursion meeting point, George Square (north side)

Conference events map = Main bus stops = Recommended walking routes