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Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King? [PDF]
This paper given in honor of John T. Killen concerns the relationship between the written and the spoken word within the narrowly defined literate administrative record-keeping systems of Mycenaean palatial centers and focuses on questions connected with
Palaima, Thomas G.
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The Mechanisms of Rendering Lithuanian Proper Names in Belorussian-Lithuanian Chronicles
The article examines the strategies of rendering Lithuanian proper names in fifteen Belorussian-Lithuanian chronicles created in the 14th–18th centuries. Thirteen of them are written in the literary language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, based on East
Sofya A. Afanasyeva
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Anthroponyms of Jewish Women in the 16th Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The most popular names among Jewish women in 16th century Lithuania were Simcha, Marjam, Anna, Debora. The names were most frequently recorded as diminutives (63.3%), with only 36.4% appearing in canonical forms. The smallest group comprises names formed
Jūratė Čirūnaitė
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Variability of Russian phraseological units with personal names
The topic of variability is one of the most demanded in the field of phraseology, since the interrelation of variability and stability is the essential characteristic of phraseological expressions as reproducible language expressions.
Maria L. Kovshova, Pavel S. Dronov
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Surnames with suffixes -(ow)ic(z)/ -(ew)ic(z) in St. Adalbert Parish in Poznań (17th–18th centuries) [PDF]
The article refers to anthroponyms of patronymic type found in birth records of St. Adalbert Parish in Poznań dating from the 17th and the 18th centuries.
Szulowska, Wanda
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Parish registers are among the most important sources of Lithuanian historical anthroponymy. A chronologically unique baptismal register of Joniškis dating to 1599–1621, which is currently the oldest known Lithuanian parish register in Lithuania, stands ...
Alma Ragauskaitė
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Proper Names as a Source of Wordplay in Classroom Bilingual Speech
The article explores the use of proper names as a source of wordplay in the classroom bilingual interaction in English as a second language. It is noted that wordplay becomes a means of accommodation to the onomastic system of a foreign language when ...
Marina О. Kunshchikova
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Possessive Adjectives Formed from Personal Names in Polish Translations of the New Testament [PDF]
The study focused on possessive adjectives derived by means of the suffixes -ow(y), -in, -sk- formed from proper personal names in old and contemporary translations of the New Testament.
Zarębski, Rafał
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Anthroponyms of Non-Slavic Origin in the Acts of the Solovetsky Monastery (Part I)
The article is the first in a planned series investigating anthroponyms of non-Slavic origin found in the Acts of the Solovetsky Monastery, a published source that vividly chronicles the history of the White Sea region in the 15th–16th centuries.
Nadezhda Vladimirovna Zhuravleva +1 more
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Demononyms in Russian Mythological Texts of the Perm Region [PDF]
The paper deals with proper names of demons (demononyms) featured in the local mythological texts of the Perm region, narrating of people with supernatural abilities.
Maria V. Bobrova, Irina I. Rusinova
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