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PLACE NAMES IN ANTARCTICA

open access: yesAntarctic Record, 1964
Japanese geographic nomenclature in Antarctica was decided by Japanese Promotive Headquarters of Antarctic Research Expedition (J.P.H.A.R.E.) in 1961, based on the policy of United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names.
Yoshimichi HARADA
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L’intégration des exonymes à la langue vietnamienne ou quand l’usage d’Internet force la normalisation

open access: yesMoussons, 2015
The Vietnamese national language (quốc ngữ), in use today, uses the Latin script. Albeit the Romanized script of the quốc ngữ seems fitted to the use of the Internet on a large extent, for many of them, Vietnamese users seem lost when looking for foreign
Philippe Le Failler
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Mapping Place Names

open access: yesNames
This paper demonstrates how to leverage the GeoNames data for seeking patterns in toponymic data using the software package ‘toponym’, which we wrote for the R computational environment. After discussing a distinction between particularistic and pattern-
Søren Wichmann, Lennart Chevallier
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“May Change Name and Pretend to be Free”: A Corpus Linguistic Investigation of Surnames Adopted by Fugitive Slaves As Advertised in Colonial American Newspapers Between 1729 and 1818

open access: yesNames, 2011
Traditionally, it has been assumed that the adoption of surnames among African Americans evolved from the simple emulation of onomastic norms common among European American slave owners.
I M Laversuch
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Frisian Place-Names and Place-Names in Friesland

open access: yesOnoma, 2011
This article sketches etymological, distributional and judicial aspects of placenames in the Frisian regions of the Netherlands and Germany. As a result of settlement history, a number of name suffixes is overrepresented in the Frisian regions: -haim, -ing > -ens, -werd, -werf and additionally -büll in North Friesland.
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Your City's Place-Names: Leeds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This book covers the principal districts (officially or unofficially recognized), some well-known buildings, features, and street-names, and the largest open spaces in the City of Leeds. For the purposes of this dictionary, the “City of Leeds” is defined
Parkin, D.H.
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Insight into the city/town names of Latvia

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017
. The origin of place names is a research topic for linguists (or onomasticians) and geographers, but since ancient times a wide range of people have also been interested in the subject.
Laimude Balode
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Ständchen [PDF]

open access: yes, 1904
No. 4D minorModeratoThro' the night, my songs entreating (Leise flehen meine Lieder / Thro' the leaves the night winds moving)ML-620-7Contains two versions of text in ...
Rellstab, Ludwig, 1799-1860   +3 more
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The place-names of Iona [PDF]

open access: yesScottish Geographical Magazine, 1887
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