New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics: International Cooperation and Examples of Objectives
, 2023 The recently founded Nordic network New Trends in Nordic Socio-Onomastics was started as a workshop program in 2018 and 2019, funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The aim was to stimulate innovative research development within the socio-onomastic field by enabling Nordic researchers to come ...
Terhi Ainiala +2 more
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(Mis)Leading Approaches in Toponomastics. Review of the book: Perono Cacciafoco, F., & Cavallaro, F. (2023). Place Names. Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xxiii + 298 p. [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The paper provides a critical review of a ten-chapter volume dealing with various aspects of the study of place names. Conceived as a concise but comprehensive reference source for students in toponomastics, the book has two distinct focuses, namely ...
Dmitry V. Spiridonov
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Horizons of Bulgarian Onomastics. Review of the book: Choleva-Dimitrova, A. (Ed.) (2014). Izsledovatelski khorizonti na balgarskata lingvistika: Materiali ot Natsionalna nauchna konferentsiia, posvetena na 90-godishninata ot rozhdenieto na prof. dfn Iordan Zaimov [Horizons of Bulgarian Linguistics: Proceedings of the National Conference Dedicated to Prof. Yordan Zaimov’s 90th Anniversary]. Sofia: Institut za balgarski ezik [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 The author reviews the works on onomastics published in the proceedings of the conference Horizons of Bulgarian Linguistics dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the noted Bulgarian linguist Prof. Yordan Zaimov. The reviewed articles focus on the study of
Maya Vlahova-Angelova
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Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 57-74, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This article widens the focus of the debate around multilingualism in early modern Europe. Using the life‐writing of a scholar, traveller and Protestant minister from the Scottish Highlands, Rev. James Fraser (1634–1709), it provides a North Sea perspective on the theme. The article sheds light on how Fraser and his locale (the ‘firthlands’ of
David Worthington
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Rufnamen kontrastiv: Ein deutsch-georgischer Vergleich [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2022 This socio-linguistic and cultural-linguistic article deals with naming fashions and naming strategies in a German-Georgian comparison. It is based on a study conducted simultaneously in Germany and Georgia in 2016 with more than 1.000 study participants,
Barbara Aehnlich +3 more
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 209-235, May 2022., 2022 Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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Вопросы ономастики, 2022 This review critically appraises a weighty, international volume of 29 chapters dealing with the multicultural dimensions of naming practices across four continents drawn up with the collaboration of leading experts and researchers in onomastics.
Leo Loveday
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 1-31, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper addresses a series of complex and unresolved issues in the historical phonology of West Iranian languages, (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and other languages), which display a high degree of irregular, non‐Lautgesetzlich behaviour.
Chundra A. Cathcart
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021 This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
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Results and Perspectives in the Study of Names: A Look from Oxford. Review of the book: Hough, C., & Izdebska, D. (Eds.). (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming. Oxford: Oxford University Press [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2016 The review provides a critical survey of the recently published volume of The Oxford Handbooks series which deals with the study of proper names.
Sergey O. Goryaev, Dmitry V. Spiridonov
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