Paper short abstract:

At the present time projects on ethnocartography are very few in Europe while on the other hand several international projects on linguistic geography are currently taking place. The aim of the paper is to point to the possibility of bringing together both disciplines in ethnolinguistic cartography.

Paper long abstract:

At the present time the active projects of traditional ethnocartography are very few in European ethnology. On the other hand, several international projects on geolinguistics or linguistic geography are currently taking place in Europe, bringing together linguists, but also anthropologists from various European countries. My intention is to point out to the possible ethnographic relevance of the most important international projects in linguistic geography that are currently conducted throughout Europe. Naturally, this refers only to lexical components of geolinguistic research, while phonetic, morphological and syntactic levels are of almost no relevance for the ethnocartography. Although today it is the prevailing opinion that the project of European Ethnological Atlas, as well as similar projects on a national level in Europe are largely irrelevant for modern ethnology, the lexical data gathered for those projects could be of great importance for the ethnolinguistic research. Considering the fact that most of the data collected for ethnographic atlases dates from a period of more than half a century, new insight into this data could give us valuable information on language change and language contacts, as well as the influence of new migrations on the ethnolingustic picture of a certain region, and Europe as a whole. Since the topic of the meeting is dwelling and the creation of cultural landscape, the paper analyses terms for the threshing floor and well in various European languages. The aim of this paper is to point to the possibility of bringing together linguistic and ethnographic research in implementing new methods of ethnolinguistic cartography, of which both disciplines could benefit.