What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
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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This review critically appraises a weighty, international volume of 29 chapters dealing with the multicultural dimensions of naming practices across four continents drawn up with the collaboration of leading experts and researchers in onomastics.
Leo Loveday
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“MOJE IMIĘ TO MILION” – ONIMICZNA LEKTURA PROZY OLGI TOKARCZUK
This article examines proper nouns in the works of Olga Tokarczuk. I analyse critical assumptions of literary onomastics and try to understand to what extent the onimic layer of the works of the Polish Nobel laureate can be considered as a system.
Graf Magdalena
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Aesthetic Onomastics and Its Functions in Artistic and Intertext [PDF]
The article examines the problems of the functioning of aesthetic onomastics in the space of a literary text and intertext based on the works of writers of world literature - representatives of the main stylistic trends of the 19th-20th centuries ...
Ikbol, K. (Kozieva), Kozieva Ikbol
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22nd International scientific conference “Onomastics of the Volga region” [PDF]
The article presents an overview of the work of the 22nd International Conference “Onomastics of the Volga region”, held on September 26–29, 2024, at Saratov State Medical University.
Danilina, Natalia Ivanovna
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The state and prospects of Ukrainian literary onomastics development in the Slavic context
Literary onomastics is one of the most popular fields of Slavic onomastics. However, despite the popularity, certain terminology disagreements in literary onomastics still exist.
Kolesnyk, Nataliіa, Petrenko, Oksana
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Semantic Interpretations of Proper Names in Literary Translation: Terry Pratchett's "Wyrd Sisters" in Bulgarian [PDF]
Name crafting has been and still is of importance when devising a literary character with certain traits and features that are meant to outstand a character's personality.
Yana Manova-Georgieva
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Toponymy in Focus. Review of the book: Barandeev, A. V. (Ed.). (2018). Voprosy geografii. Sb. 146. Aktualnye problemy toponimiki [Problems of Geography. 146. Topical Issues in Toponomastics]. Moscow: Codex. 312 p. [PDF]
The review observes a new collection of studies devoted to the problems of Russian toponymy. Released under the authority of the Russian Geographical Society that keeps a constant focus on toponymy on the pages of its journal “Problems of Geography ...
Konstantin A. Gein
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ONOMASTICS IS A BRANCH OF LINGUISTICS. USAGE OF ONOMASTICS IN LITERARY TEXTS
Onomastics is a branch of linguistics that studies any famous names, the history of their origin and change, as well as the sum of all famous names. In some studies, the term "onomastics" is also used in the sense of anthroponymy. Onomastics aims to identify and study existing onomastic systems.
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Phonetic Metaphor and the Limits of Sound Symbolism
Evocative as it is elusive, the sound-symbolism of names tends to be a highly subjective affair, more the stuff of poetic fancy than objective critical analysis.
Christopher L Robinson
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