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Place and place names: a unified model [PDF]
Frontiers 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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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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Urban Place Names: Introduction
Urban Science, 2020 Urban place names are multidimensional phenomena [...]
Sergei Basik
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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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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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Ubiquitous Place Names Standardization and Study in Indonesia [PDF]
, 2015 Place names play a vital role in human society. Names exist in all languages and place names are an indispensible part of International communication. This has been acknowledged by the establishment of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical ...
Lauder, A. F. (Allan) +1 more
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Geographical information retrieval with ontologies of place [PDF]
, 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.
A. Tversky +18 more
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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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