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A Study of Toponyms: Place Names in Tosya (Kastamonu) / Yer Adları Açısından Bir İnceleme: Tosya’da (Kastamonu) Yer Adları [PDF]

Folklor/Edebiyat, 2020
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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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing toponym identification: Leveraging Topo-BERT and open-source data to differentiate between toponyms and extract spatial relationships

AGILE Conf.
. Geoparsing, the process of linking locations within text to sets of geographic coordinates, plays an important role in the extraction and analysis of information from unstructured textual data.
J. Shingleton, Ana Basiri
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Vietovardžių apibendrintų skiemens modelių statistinė analizė

Lietuvių Kalba, 2007
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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Topographical reconstruction of ancient Palermo: a note on its buildings for public spectacles and their relation with the Roman-period civic planning [PDF]

, 2016
Topographical studies in the last decades have greatly improved our knowledge of Roman Panormus (modern day Palermo) but many aspects of its urban planning still remain obscure. It is very hard work to clearly understand a city that has been continuously
Storchi, Paolo
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.
Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Onomasticon of Levänluhta and Käldamäki region [PDF]

, 2017
The water burials in the Levänluhta (the Isokyrö parish) and Käldamäki (the former Vöyri parish) sites in Ostrobothnia have been a great mystery for the scholars because of their unique character.
Rahkonen, Pauli
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley   +1 more source

EXPLORING TOPONYMS IN RUSSIAN PHILOLOGY: A LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

American Journal Of Philological Sciences
Toponyms, or place names, play a pivotal role in Russian philology, serving as linguistic artifacts that reflect the rich tapestry of Russian history, culture, andgeography.
Bakhtiyor Suvankulov
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Toponyms as a Gateway to Society

Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 2021
Abui is a Papuan language spoken in Alor Island, South-East Indonesia. Although there are rich studies on the Abui language and its structure, research on Abui toponymy, which aids the understanding of language, culture, and society, deserves greater ...
Shaun Lim Tyan Gin, Francesco Perono Cacciafoco   +1 more
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