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Ubiquitous Place Names Standardization and Study in Indonesia [PDF]
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]
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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Névváltozási jelenségek Zoboralja helyneveiben (Menyhe és Zsére névanyaga alapján) [PDF]
Place name changes in Zoboralja, on the basis of toponyms from Menyhe and Zsére in Slovakia Place names, including microtoponyms – similarly to other linguistic signs – can perform different changes as a result of external (non linguistic) or ...
N. Császi, Ildikó
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Helynévképzők a fiktív nevek körében [PDF]
Place-name suffixes in fictive proper names The present article aims at proving the hypothesis that invented (fictive) place-names (mostly found in literary works) contain the characteristic affixes that are present in real place-names (i.e.
Bényei, Ágnes
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A helynevek szerepe az alternatív ideologikus gondolkodásban I. [PDF]
The role of place names in an alternative ideological mindset I. The case of the Pilis Cult This paper focuses on the role of place names in defining and legitimizing the identity of a subculture through the example of a complex contemporary ...
Imreh, Réka
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VITALIZING JAVANESE LANGUAGE THROUGH PLACE NAMES [PDF]
The role of Javanese language is now gradually replaced by Indonesian or even English language as a result of a process called language shift. While Javanese language is offered in Central Java schools as local subject, the policy is insufficient to ...
Riyandari, Angelika
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Articles about American placenames in Word Ways have generally reflected their great diversity. But what about their commonality? There\u27s lots of duplication among the names of American places. Isn\u27t it time that we had an article appreciating that
Tilque, Dan
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Frisian Place-Names and Place-Names in Friesland
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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IDENTITY OF PLACE, PLACES OF IDENTITIES, CHANGE OF PLACE NAMES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA [PDF]
International audienceVarious types of transformations of toponyms coexist today in South Africa at every scale: street, suburb, village, town, city, municipality, district, province and country. Place names contribute to forge the identity of particular
Guyot, Sylvain, Seethal, Cecil
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Cassini's Compositae genera: A nomenclatural and taxonomic assessment [PDF]
Work on the Global Compositae Checklist has highlighted uncertainties and errors in the nomenclatural parameters of many genera and subgenera described by Henri Cassini. Problems concern rank (subgenus vs. genus); type designation; correct place of valid
Flann, C.M., Greuter, W., Hind, D.J.N.
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