Studia Językoznawcze

This article offers an analysis of the street names in the villages located in Kórnik Commune, Poznań County. Both semantic and structural analysis was performed. The street names were grouped according to whether they contained one, two, and three or more elements. They were also divided into substantival, adjectival, and adverbial ones. Semantic classification was also carried out, according to which the following categories of names were distinguished: topographic, directional, cultural, relational renewed, commemorative, geographic, referring to nature, metaphoric, derived from professions, and other. The structural analysis demonstrated that the most numerous category contained short, oneelement adjectival names. The semantic analysis pointed out that the largest semantic categories contained names referring to nature, topographic, and metaphoric. The article provided also a rank list of names showing those with the highest number of nominations, which was juxtaposed with a similar nationwide ranking of this type of names. The author also noted that the names linked by a chain of associations tend to appear in close geographical proximity to each other, although they are not always classified into one thematic field.