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The article is a fragment of the research project Names as the basis of Polish toponyms, conducted in the Department of Onomastics in the Institute of Polish Language in Kraków.
Katarzyna Skowronek
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Roman citizenship of Italian *Augustales : evidence, problems, competitive advantages [PDF]
The title * augustalis was used during the first three centuries A. D., to refer to an honorary position in local society. It was mostly bestowed on wealthy freedmen who, because of their servile birth, could not partake in the official cursus honorum ...
Vandevoorde, Lindsey
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Свидетельства эпиграфики. Античная история в зеркале древних надписей [PDF]
В данной работе античные инскрипции представлены как источник к изучению следующих страниц в истории Греции и Рима: локальные языки и местные культуры, античные имена, семья и общество, светская и религиозная жизнь, экономика.Настоящая монография издана ...
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Language-based approaches to names in literature [PDF]
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Cavill, Paul
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Anthroponymic innovation in Bahia during 19th, 20th and 21st centuries
This article aims to trace a historical panorama of anthroponomic innovation in Brazil by analyzing research data on the uses of anthroponyms in the State of Bahia in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Juliana Soledade +2 more
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Black Italianità: Citizenship and Belonging in the Black Mediterranean [PDF]
This article discusses the fraught relationship between legal citizenship and Black belonging as depicted in the works of two Black Italian women writers. The protagonists in the short story “Salsicce” (“Sausages”) by Igiaba Scego and the novella Kkeywa:
Smythe, SA
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The Slipperiness of Name: Biography and Gender in Australian Cultural Databases
Abstract In this article, we examine and historicise problems related to name and gender in biographical and cultural databases. Combining theoretical and computational approaches to onomastics, we identify contradictory naming conventions, intriguing patterns and distinct institutional vestiges in the recording and representation of artistic careers ...
Nat Cutter +2 more
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Névtani kutatások a poznańi Adam Mickiewicz Egyetemen
Onomastic research at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań In 2005 a research group for onomastics was established in the Institute of Polish Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.
Irena Sarnowska-Giefing
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‘To assume another name’: Race, gender, family and name changing in New York City, 1887–2012
Abstract The name‐change petitions housed in the New York City Civil Court allow us to see the ways that Jewish families, cisgender women and transgender people throughout the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries used state mechanisms to challenge institutionalised antisemitism and traditional definitions of family and gender. At the same time, however,
Kirsten Fermaglich
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