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Structural-and-Semantic Analysis of Oronyms of Chile
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2016 Timeliness of the article refers to the lack of scientific studies of oronyms of Chile. The investigation of oronyms is conducted at the intersection of disciplines: history, geography, linguistics.
E S Bobylyova
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Names, 2023 Wildfires pose a growing problem in the US and elsewhere. Many US wildfires acquire a name, and the naming of such fires is what this article chronicles.
Michael D. Sublett, Jennifer A. Sublett
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Toponymy of the Ancient Sary-Arka (North-Eastern Kazakhstan) [PDF]
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2018 This study examines the etymology of the principal physiographic entities of the ancient Sary-Arka area–meaning in the old Turkic language Yellowing Ridge – encompassing the present territory of parkland-steppes, rocky highlands and the adjacent ...
Saparov Kuat +2 more
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Mansi Oronyms of the Urals: New Materials and New Approaches (Review of: Slinkina, T. D. Mansi Oronyms of the Urals) [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2013 The review analyzes the book Mansi Oronyms of the Urals by T. D. Slinkina based on a wide range of materials taken from handwritten and cartographic sources as well as on the author’s field research materials on Polar and North Urals toponymy.
Tatyana N. Dmitriyeva
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Two-Element Slavic Anthroponyms in Slovenian Toponymy [PDF]
Jezikoslovni zapiski, 2015 Among Slovenian toponyms formed from anthroponyms, 162 two-element Slavic anthroponyms have been found (including seven epithets of the type Mokronog, but without prefixed names of the type *Postoj or names with negation of the type *Nerad), of which 118
Silvo Torkar
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ORONYMS IN SERBIAN MEDIEVAL CHARTERS: THEIR MEMORIAL IN FUNCTION OF THE BORDER AREA ENTITY
Истраживања, 2011 Relief is one of the most important and influential elements of the environment. All forms of the Earth's surface, i.e. its roughness and plane surfaces predetermine the type and forms of borders in a space.
Снежана Божанић
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The functions of toponyms in the works by K. F. Zhakov [PDF]
Финно-угорский мир, 2023 Introduction. In Finno-Ugric studies, as well as in Komi linguistics, the language of fiction is insufficiently studied, including the functions of toponyms in prose.
Galina K. Lisovskaya +1 more
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Cultural Studies of Stone: Stones and Mountains in Folklore, Rites, and Toponymy. Review of the book: Ageeva, R. A. (2019). Kamen’ i gory v narodnoi kul’ture [Stone and Mountains in Popular Culture]. Moscow: Maska. 250 p. [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 This paper gives an overview of the book Stone and Mountains in Popular Culture by Ruth Ageeva, a monograph that includes a preface, an introduction, seven chapters, an appendix, and a list of oronyms (proper names for mountains and stones) found in the ...
Yuri S. Kostylev
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Referential conventions as compromise: The case of oronyms
, 2023 International audienceThis chapter explores reference in the case of oronyms, that is, proper nouns which designate portions of mountainous relief. As a linguistic function, reference binds a linguistic sign to an extra-linguistic entity.
Ounoughi, Samia, Samia Ounoughi
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Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Investigation of the space once invaded and reclaimed by the Mongolic peoples is one of the pressing problems in the history of nomadic societies. Goals.
Marina M. Sodnompilova
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