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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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Still having a conflict potential? German and Hungarian toponyms in the Czech and Slovak national corpora texts

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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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.
Tudhope, Douglas, Alani, Harith, Jones, Christopher B.   +2 more
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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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The Cailleach in Place-Names and Place-Lore [PDF]

Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 2021
No abstract available.
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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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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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A dictionary of British place-names [electronic resource] /

, 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., Mills, A. D.(Anthony David),   +1 more
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Mapping Place Names

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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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