Popular Books on English Place-Names — a Serious Issue in Onomastics [PDF]
Вопросы 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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A natural language processing and geospatial clustering framework for harvesting local place names from geotagged housing advertisements [PDF]
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2018 Local place names are frequently used by residents living in a geographic region. Such place names may not be recorded in existing gazetteers, due to their vernacular nature, relative insignificance to a gazetteer covering a large area (e.g.
Yingjie Hu, Huina Mao, Grant McKenzie
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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]
Linguistica 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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Miscellanea 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
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Plural Toponyms: When Place Names Coexist
EchoGéo, 2020 A branch of onomastics (the study of proper names) in linguistics, toponymy studies the origins, meanings and alterations of place names. In addition, this field involves a considerable amount of inventory work and classification in diverse contexts and ...
F. Giraut
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A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of NAMES
Names, 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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Principles of Toponyms (Place Names) Classifications
, 2020 Toponyms (place names) represent language units denoting elements of topographic environment. The relevance of the study is caused by the need to develop the theory of toponymy and to systematize all the existing toponymic classifications.Place names ...
Khayitova Feruza Abdikhalikovna
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Dėl miestelio vardo Saldùtiškis raidos ir kilmės
Baltistica, 2016 Dabartinio Utenos raj. miestelio vardas Saldùtiškis nėra labai senas, tačiau turi daug įvairiausių formos variantų. Todėl straipsnyje, remiantis istorinėmis gyvenvietės radimosi ir raidos aplinkybėmis, jos vardo vartosenos istorijos dokumentuose ir ...
Laimutis Bilkis
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“We shall know a place by its names”: Co-existing place names in Bindura, Zimbabwe
EchoGéo, 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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Multilingual Place Names in Southern Africa
Names, 2019 Numerous place names in southern Africa reveal cultural and language contact between Bushmen (San), Khoikhoi, Bantu and European language speakers over many thousands of years.
L. A. Möller
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