Due to globalization synchronic approaches in toponymy arise increasing interest among
linguists. This volume takes stock of different approaches to synchronic toponymy presenting
linguistic studies on toponyms - in as various fields as grammar morphosyntax semantics and
pragmatics - which describe their structure and lexical status their semantic facets applied
to the psychological sociological and political implications of their use and function in
discourse. All these factors account for the great variety of linguistic projects related to
toponyms i.e. modelling as well as the use and normalization of toponyms in spoken and
written contexts.
