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The current paper introduces a certain layer of zoonyms, including the proper names of mongrel dogs participating in the Soviet Space Programme (1950–1960-ies), into scientific circulation.
I. V. Ostroverkhaia
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From Mordasov to Dukhanovo and back: toponymic space of the of Dostoyevsky’s novel «Uncle’s dream» [PDF]
The role of place names in Dostoevsky’s literary texts is never reduced to a nominative function, which consists in the designation of the place of action of the work.
Skuridina Svetlana A.
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The cultural, ethnic and linguistic classification of populations and neighbourhoods using personal names [PDF]
There are growing needs to understand the nature and detailed composition of ethnicgroups in today?s increasingly multicultural societies. Ethnicity classifications areoften hotly contested, but still greater problems arise from the quality and ...
Longley, PA, Mateos, P, Webber, R
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ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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My obsession for playing with words was ignited nearly ten years ago, with the discovery of a palindrome in a Julio Cortazar tale. Since then, I have devoted myself to accumulating historical material relating to word games, as well as to creating new ...
Llado, Jesus
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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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‘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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ABSTRACT Transnational family research documented well the challenges that migrated adult children experience when they want to provide care to their stayed‐behind families. Yet similar results are provided by research on long‐distance carers who are not international migrants.
David Schiefer, Magdalena Nowicka
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Les éponymes démythonymiques dans le lexique du polonais et du français [PDF]
The text presents the results of a research on the demythonymic eponyms in Polish and French language, i.e. lexical units, which derive from proper names appearing in the fi ctional space of classical myths (mythonyms).
Gałkowski, Artur
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Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl
Abstract Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim (‘the City of [the god] Kahl’) is the Ancient South Arabian name of the modern site of Qaryat al‐Fāw. This compound refers to the tutelary deity of the city, in this case, a god called Kahl. However, the identity of this Kahl is obscure.
Juan de Lara
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