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Toponymy as Commodity: Exploring the Economic Dimensions of Urban Place Names. [PDF]
, 2014 In recent years the study of urban toponymy (place names) has been revitalized by the emergence of a ‘critical toponymies’ approach. This focuses on the cultural politics of place naming and the decisions involved in attributing names to the urban ...
Light, Duncan, Young, C.
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, 2001 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
Onoma, 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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Insight into the city/town names of Latvia
Eesti 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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Semantic categories underlying the meaning of ‘place’ [PDF]
, 2007 This paper analyses the semantics of natural language expressions that are associated with the intuitive notion of ‘place’. We note that the nature of such terms is highly contested, and suggest that this arises from two main considerations: 1) there are
B. Bennett +18 more
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NamesPlace Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics. By Francesco Perono Cacciafo and Francesco Cavallaro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. Pp. 298. (Paperback) $34.99. ISBN 13: 978-1-108-74824-7.
Daniel Duncan
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К этимологии некоторых древнерусских топонимов XIV–XVI вв
Folia Onomastica Croatica, 2006 In this article the origin of place names Bobol’, Bubol, Zheremin’, Zheryn’, Zerem, Izdeteml’e and Retan’ is discussed.
M. A. Jujukin
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Cassini's Compositae genera: A nomenclatural and taxonomic assessment [PDF]
, 2010 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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