Lexico-semantic peculiarities of place names of Nova Scotia (Canada)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the lexico-semantic peculiarities of place names of Nova Scotia (Canada). As a result of the lexico-semantic analysis several groups of place names were indicated according to two features: origin and motivation.

Keywords

• лексико-семантический анализ
• топонимы Новой Шотландии (Канада)
• топонимическая подсистема Канады
• классификация топонимического материала
• происхождение и мотивация