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New Look on the Toponyms Valdai and Gora-Valdai
The article criticizes the traditional and widespread view on the etymology of the toponyms Valdai in the Novgorod region and Mount Valdai (Finnish Harjavalta) on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg.
V. Vasilyev
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Toponyms in Banyumas as Representation of Banyumas Community Culture
Naming is searching for language symbols to describe objects, concepts, and processes by utilizing vocabulary through changes in meaning or the creation of words.
Gita Anggria Resticka +2 more
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Toponyms contain essential historical and geographical information. When quantitative and qualitative data are included in the study of toponyms, geodatabases are very convenient.
Mariam Tsitsagi, Valeri Kekenadze
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Karachay-Balkar Toponyms with the Colour Appellative Къара “Black”
. The aim of the study is a comprehensive description of the linguistic features of the Karachay-Balkar toponyms with the colorative къара “black”. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that these toponyms by the material of the Karachay ...
Mussa Maskhutovich Tekuev +2 more
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Standardization of Word Order in Toponyms-Word Combinations
The article is devoted to the study of the standardization of the order of words in the attribute toponyms - word combinations with the type of concord connection.
I. A. Dambuev
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Inferring the Origin Locations of Tweets with Quantitative Confidence [PDF]
Social Internet content plays an increasingly critical role in many domains, including public health, disaster management, and politics. However, its utility is limited by missing geographic information; for example, fewer than 1.6% of Twitter messages ...
Brown L. D. +10 more
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Proxy data and qualitative information are important assets in water resources and floods management. In the research, the river water bodies with characteristic toponyms (hydronyms) in Greece that potentially reflect the water’s quality or the ...
C. Skoulikaris
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Toponyms from Appellative Personal Names in the Southern Highlands Region
The aim of this article is to discuss the formation of toponyms derived from various kinds of appellatives originating from personal names of the southern part of Lithuania – South Highlands (Lith. Pietų Aukštaitija).
Ilona Mickienė, Rita Baranauskienė
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A social psychological study of ethnonyms: Cognitive representation of the ingroup and intergroup hostility [PDF]
Ethnonyms (M. G. Levin & L. P. Potapov, 1964; from the Greek roots meaning "a national group" and "name") are the names an in-group uses to distinguish itself from out-groups.
Calogero, Rachel M. +2 more
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ON THE STUDY OF TOPONYMS IN COGNITIVE ASPECT
Purpose. The article is a review of scientific research on toponymy in the cognitive aspect. Toponyms as proper names contain communicative pragmatics, the ability to transmit national and cultural information about the objects of reality.
E. Kovlakas
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