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The Cailleach in Place-Names and Place-Lore [PDF]

Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 2021
No abstract available.
Alasdair C. Whyte
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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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PLACE NAMES IN ANTARCTICA

Antarctic 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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Névváltozási jelenségek Zoboralja helyneveiben (Menyhe és Zsére névanyaga alapján) [PDF]

, 2007
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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A helynevek szerepe az alternatív ideologikus gondolkodásban I. [PDF]

, 2014
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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L’intégration des exonymes à la langue vietnamienne ou quand l’usage d’Internet force la normalisation

Moussons, 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

Names
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

Names, 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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Review on: А.  А.  Афанасьева,  Топонимия Сямозерья в ареале карельского диалектного пограничья. Дис­сертация на соискание ученой сте­пени кандидата филологических наук, Саранск 2022 [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
Galina Fedyuneva
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VITALIZING JAVANESE LANGUAGE THROUGH PLACE NAMES [PDF]

, 2017
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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