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Shakespearean onymy and Anglo-Saxon literary onomastics — apropos of Grant W. Smith's monograph “Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare's Comedies”

, 2022
The review discusses the 2021 monograph “Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies” by Grant W. Smith. The structure and content of the monograph is presented, highlighting its grounding in classic Peircean semiotics and outlining the main categories ...
Walkowiak, Justyna
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Book Review

Names
Literary Onomastics. Edited By Dorothy Dodge Robbins. Lanham: Lexington Books. 2023. Pp. 124 (Hardback). $90.00. ISBN 13: 987-1-666-90593-9.
Anne W. Anderson
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 323-352, May 2026.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
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Nomeação e Espacialização como agentes do trágico em “Os Maias”

Onomástica desde América Latina, 2020
Before the first considerations of this study began, Steiner (2006 [1961]) would advise us that the tragedy is dead, as well as remind us of Saussure (2006 [1916]) that the referent does not fit the arbitrary logic of language; but, as Bacon (2005 [1869])
Amanda Kristensen de Camargo
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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Issue of terminology ukrainian literary onomastics

Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine, 2015
В статье проанализировано теоретические вопросы, посвящены терминологии украинской литературной ономастики, рассмотрено спор ученых разных ономастических школ (одесской, ужгородской, донецкой) об названии самой дисциплины, рассмотрены три подхода к изучению собственных имен в художественном произведении.
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Lexicological Studies in Old Literary Tibetan. Onomastics

, 2023
"Lexicological Studies in Old Literary Tibetan. Onomastics" (LS-O) provides analytical infor­mation and etymological notes on the proper names from the Old Tibetan Dictionary (OTD; otdict.com). It complements the latter and contains only additional sources, whereas the principal sources of information are provided in the dictionary.
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Buddhist and Indian Elements in the Onomastics of the Iranian Manichaean Texts

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020
The use of names and terms of Indian origin bears witness to encounters of Iranian-speaking Manichaeans with Indian religious traditions and cultures, but the importance of an impact of Indian religions on Manichaeism is still subject of scholarly ...
Iris Colditz
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Feelings of Guilt When Caring for Parents Across Borders: The Role of Gender and Country‐Specific Care Systems and Norms

Global Networks, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2025.
ABSTRACT It is well established that families maintain ties across national borders. Research shows that caregiving obligations between adult children and their parents can induce care burden and negatively impact well‐being, particularly when children are unable to adequately care for parents abroad.
David Schiefer, Magdalena Nowicka, Sandra Morgenstern   +2 more
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