Neighborhoods’s Names Created in Dourados (MS) between 2008-2018

Abstract

Onomastics is the Lexicology’s domain responsible for the proper names’ study, which can be related to people, stars, places, among other referents. In this research, we investigated a set of place names, which we call toponyms, study’s objects from one of Onomastics’ subdivisions, Toponymy. The proposed investigation has as main objective to carry out a study of the neighborhoods’ names created and approved in the city of Dourados in the period from 2008 to 2018, highlighting trends with regard to semantic motivation, linguistic origin and the names’ formal structure. In addition, we made a comparison between both new’ and first neighborhoods toponyms from the city. Data were collected from the urban planning’s responsible bodies in the city hall of Dourados and analyzed at the light of theories that discuss the relationship between language and external factors, lexicon, and, more specifically, toponymy (SAPIR, 1969; DICK, 1990a, 1990b, among others). Among the results obtained, comparing the newest and oldest names, we can say that the trends in terms of motivation present some distinctions, but, in general, they are very similar.

Keywords

• lexicon
• toponomy
• dourados’ neighborhoods (ms)