ABSTRACT
Ecolinguistics provides several questions relevant to toponymy (placenaming studies). The one detailed in this chapter is: How can relationships implicating people, language, place, and names be measured empirically in and through toponyms? The broad conceptual net of ecolinguistics offers fertile ground for future work in toponymy and language and place-naming. The role of more aesthetically and artistically focused crossovers within toponymy, cartography and the ideation of place are possible under the banner of ecolinguistics. Islands are posed as appropriate sites for assessing human and nature interaction through toponymy from an ecolinguistic perspective.
