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Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation [PDF]
, 2020 Recognition, Regulation, Revitalisation: Place Names and Indigenous Languages is a selection of double-blind peer-reviewed papers from the 5th International Symposium on Place Names that took place 18-20 September 2020 in Clarens, South Africa.
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The Element sceilg in Irish Place-names – A Borrowing of Latin spelu(n)ca? [PDF]
, 2023 Modern Irish sceilg is defined as a ‘steep rock’ or ‘crag’ (Ó Dónaill, 1977). The Old Irish form is sceillec (Dictionary of the Irish Language, 1913–1976).
Tempan, Paul
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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.
Harith Alani +5 more
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A dictionary of British place-names [electronic resource] / [PDF]
, 2003 "Fully revised, updated, and slightly expanded version of ... Dictionary of English place-names (Oxford University Press 1991, second edition 1998)"--Pref.Previous ed. published as: The dictionary of English place-names.
Mills, A. D.(Anthony David),Dictionary of English place-names. +1 more
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The Iron Age and Medieval portage at Haraldseid, southwest Norway. Legends, place names and archaeology [PDF]
, 2023 The old Norse term eið occurs in many Scandinavian place names. It denotes a passage over land between two trafficable waters, i.e., an isthmus which could be utilised as a portage for boats, people and cargo.
Reiersen, Håkon +1 more
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Defining Artifact Names: Is It Possible? [PDF]
, 2023 Artifact names are traditionally viewed as a sub-category of culture names, which include the names of features created by humans. The nature and categorization of artifacts in the modern world is increasingly difficult to comprehend because of their ...
Päll, Peeter, Laansalu, Tiina
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Exploring Real and Imaginary Place Names of Medieval French Romance: A Network Visualization Approach [PDF]
, 2018 This article explores a method of looking at both real and imaginary place name occurrences that co-occur in a corpus of medieval French courtly literature.
Wrisley, David Joseph +1 more
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Visitor experiences of aboriginal place names in colonial Victoria, Australia, 1834-1900 [PDF]
, 2016 In a preliminary assessment of a literary triptych of travel through colonial Victoria, Australia, in the nineteenth century, each representing different time periods, a common thread was found in that all three shared an interest in Aboriginal place ...
Clark, Ian, Ian D. Clark
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Scottish place-names as a lexicographical resource [PDF]
, 2006 The purpose of this paper is to highlight the value of Scottish place-name evidence as a tool for the historical lexicographer of the Scots and English languages, and to identify some of the areas of lexical research where this tool could be applied more
Scott, MR
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NamesThis 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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