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A Study of Toponyms: Place Names in Tosya (Kastamonu) / Yer Adları Açısından Bir İnceleme: Tosya’da (Kastamonu) Yer Adları [PDF]
An important branch of onomastics (or onomatology) is the one on the names of places (toponyms). Toponymy is an interdisciplinary field of study in which many disciplines such as linguistics, geography, history, sociology and archaeology are ...
Erol Topal, Bilgin Ünal İbret
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Toponyms of the Tibetan Plateau have been scarcely studied. To help address that need, this study explores cross-cultural toponymy and phonetic opacity.
Thupten Wodzer
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ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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Thanks to numerous written documents and old plans Split abounds in historic data referring to its toponyms. Since the Split toponyms had been only partly studied the object of the author is to list them in detail both the historic ones and those that ...
Petrić, Perislav, Perislav Petrić
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Abstract Introduction Restoration ecology relies on interactions between scientists and managers, yet these interactions are shaped by broader academic, social, and political contexts that influence how scientific knowledge is produced and mobilized. Objective This article aims to examine how scientific knowledge is produced within a long‐term river ...
Basile Cousin, Émeline Comby
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Toponymy can be studied geographically as well as linguistically according to it features of geographical and linguistical. The article illustrates on the principles of toponyms as well as it includes some methods of descriptive and semantic analysis of toponyms. Moreover, it is given various types of toponyms and features of them.
Ismatova, Nodirakhon +2 more
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ABSTRACT Four new species of Ibaloniinae harvestmen are described from the Solomon Islands, Melanesia. Based on the original diagnosis of Euibalonius Roewer, 1915, and description of E. maculatus (Roewer, 1915), this material appeared related to that genus. However, examination of syntype photographs of the type species E.
Adriano B. Kury +4 more
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Plural Toponyms: When Place Names Coexist [PDF]
A branch of onomastics (the study of proper names) in linguistics, toponymy studies the origins, meanings and alterations of place names. In addition, this field involves a considerable amount of inventory work and classification in diverse contexts and ...
Giraut, Frédéric
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Vietovardžių apibendrintų skiemens modelių statistinė analizė
The article deals with the syllable structure of toponyms and with the general regularities of the syllable phonotactics. The experiment has been carried out using the original software SKIEMUO. PAS. (the programming language Turbo Pascal.
Regina Kliukienė
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