Some notes on peripheral items and features in eponymy
Journal: Onomastica
Year: 2025

The article’s subject matter is the study of eponymy from the viewpoint of the opposition between centre vs. periphery, both externally (i.e., concerning eponymy as a whole) and internally. The author argues that eponymy itself is a peripheral category regarding deappellative formation, since the semantics of eponymic inner form, while sharing common features with the latter (such as metaphor and metonymy), can also manifest ones that are unique to it (sanctifying, honorific, commemorative, and