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Place and place names: a unified model [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
The goal of this paper is to offer a unified account of Place as a central theoretical notion across different disciplines. We show that while psychology, geography and other sciences have been converging to a unified view of this notion, linguistics ...
Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Yue Sara Zhang
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Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages is a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 5th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2020 in Clarens, South Africa.

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Urban Place Names: Introduction

open access: yesUrban Science, 2020
Urban place names are multidimensional phenomena [...]
Sergei Basik
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Popular Books on English Place-Names — a Serious Issue in Onomastics [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2017
This article reflects on a recent spate of books on English place-names produced by a nonprofessional writer, showing in considerable detail, for five counties, in what ways these books are deficient, and do not perform what ought to be the praiseworthy ...
Richard Coates
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Opyt kompleksnogo issledovanija toponimov zapadnoj Ingermanlandii: istoriko-toponomitsheskij slovar’ [An Attempt at a Complex Study of the Place Names of Western Ingermanland. A Historical and Toponymic Dictionary]; pp. 57-63 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2015
The research is based on the creation of a unique historical and toponymic dictionary of Ingermanland, which aims to represent the historical and toponymic landscape of the Ingrian area. The focus lies solely on settlement names.
A. V. Dmitriev
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Still having a conflict potential? German and Hungarian toponyms in the Czech and Slovak national corpora texts

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2019
The paper focuses on German forms of place names in Czechia and Slovakia, and Hungarian forms of place names in Slovakia, especially on their revitalization and perception after 1989.
David Jaroslav, Klemensová Tereza
doaj   +1 more source

A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of NAMES

open access: yesNames, 2021
The Vice President of the American Name Society, Dr. Luisa Caiazzo, is issuing a call for papers for a special issue of NAMES on the selection and meaning of toponyms in works of fiction.
Luisa Caiazzo
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Geographical information retrieval with ontologies of place [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Geographical context is required of many information retrieval tasks in which the target of the search may be documents, images or records which are referenced to geographical space only by means of place names.
Harith Alani   +5 more
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“We shall know a place by its names”: Co-existing place names in Bindura, Zimbabwe

open access: yesEchoGéo, 2020
This article examines the layered co-existence and simultaneous use of a complex range of toponyms in the town of Bindura in Zimbabwe. It proposes that the concurrent use of different names for the same place indicates the ongoing negotiation ...
Dorcas Zuvalinyenga
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A dictionary of British place-names [electronic resource] / [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
"Fully revised, updated, and slightly expanded version of ... Dictionary of English place-names (Oxford University Press 1991, second edition 1998)"--Pref.Previous ed. published as: The dictionary of English place-names.
Mills, A. D.(Anthony David),Dictionary of English place-names.   +1 more
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