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Alts, Abbreviations, and AKAs: Historical Onomastic Variation and Automated Named Entity Recognition [PDF]
Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 2017 Accurate automated identification of named places is a major concern for scholars in the digital humanities, and especially for those engaged in research that depends upon the gazetteer-led recognition of specific aspects. The field of onomastics examines the linguistic roots and historical development of names, which have for the most part only ...
Butler, James Odelle +3 more
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Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2020 Between the 16th and the 18th centuries, the area known from 1920 to 1939 as the Klaipėda region (Memel territory) experienced a variety of migration flows, which have been described by researchers on several occasions.
Dalia Kiseliūnaitė
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Change-of-Name Petitions of the NewYork Courts: An Untapped Source in Historical Onomastics
Names, 1986 Arthur Scherr
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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Történelemkonstruálás – névkonstruálás
Névtani Értesítő, 2020 Constructing history – constructing names. Personal names of early Hungarian history and the posterity The topic of the paper is how people of modern times attempt to approach the onomasticon of personal names of the past, of which they lack ...
TAMÁS FARKAS
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Mycenaean Militarism from a Textual Perspective. Onomastics in Context: lawos, damos, klewos [PDF]
, 1999 In this paper, after surveying the Linear B textual evidence that demonstrates palatial concern for centralized control and organization of military equipment and personnel, Palaima uses the evidence of onomastics and of textual/administrative context to
Palaima, Thomas G.
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Solidarity with everyone? Intergroup helping and COVID‐19
Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1309-1326, September/October 2023., 2023 Abstract This study investigates peoples' prosocial attitudes and real‐life prosocial behaviour towards different ethnic groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic, taking Germany as an empirical example. In a preregistered multi‐study design, we examined: (a) who receives help, (b) who helps and (c) what explains prosocial behaviour. In study 1, we conducted
Ruta Yemane +5 more
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The “Cthulhu network”: The process by which the popular myth was made
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 324-340, April 2023., 2023 Abstract In the context of popular culture, the work of Lovecraft deserves a prominent role, not only for its influence on many later authors, but for its profound impact on 20th century popular culture, from music and video games to films, comics, and merchandising.
Jose Luis Arroyo‐Barrigüete
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Ubiquitous Place Names Standardization and Study in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2015 Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place names are an indispensible part of International communication. This has been acknowledged by the establishment of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical ...
Lauder, A. F. (Allan) +1 more
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A Kiss Lajos-díj 2018. évi nyertese: dr. Győrffy Erzsébet
Névtani Értesítő, 2019 Winner of the 2018 Lajos Kiss Prize: Dr Erzsébet Győrffy The Lajos Kiss Prize, awarded every two or three years since 2006, is considered to be a highly prestigious award for young onomasticians.
ISTVÁN HOFFMANN
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