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Russian Language Studies, 2011 The article reviews toponymy of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. Analysis of this part of Canadian toponymy helps specify the role of geographical names in the formation of linguistic world view of the Canadians and obtain linguistic and ...
A U Ilyina
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“Intuitive districts”: Agentive images in a post‐socialist city
City &Society, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 78-90, August 2024.Abstract Anyone who has lived in a city knows that, separately from the administrative or electoral districts, there are districts that exist in the imagination. Areas of the city seem to have a distinctive character and ethos. The article suggests that such notional place‐forming occurs spontaneously through everyday sensations, life activities, and ...
Caroline Humphrey
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Metaphoric names in Bulgarian oronymy
Folia Onomastica Croatica, 2001 The paper analyses a group od Bulgarian metaphorically motivated placenames, especially those derived from terms for human (head, nose, leg etc.) or animal (wing, horn, beak, hoof etc.) body parts.
Ljiljana Dimitrova-Todorova
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W poszukiwaniu tzw. centrum toponimii (wczesno)słowiańskiej – przypadek ziem polskich. Cz. II
LingVaria, 2017 In Search of the So-Called “Centre of (Early) Slavic Toponymy”. The Case of Poland. Part II This two-part paper presents the theoretical assumptions, and gives an account of the current progress of a Slavistic appendix which is being prepared by this ...
Zbigniew Babik
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Hispanic toponymy of Chile: linguocultural and linguopragmatic approach
Linha D'Água, 2023 The article provides a linguo-cultural and linguo-pragmatic analysis of the Hispanic toponymy of Chile. Geographical names are considered from historical, geographical, and linguistic perspectives.
Irina A. Martynenko
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InterCarto. InterGIS, 2017 The main purpose of any geographical name is the fixation of a particular object or territory with a spatial reference on the earth’s surface. Regional toponymy is a priceless monument of spiritual culture of humanity, preserving the memory of the ...
S. A. Teslenok +3 more
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, 2023 Toponymy is the science that has its subject the study of geographical names or toponyms. As all other names, toponyms belong to languages. Whether they carry a physical meaning in all cases they once used the vocabulary and followed the grammatical and orthographic rules of a certain language.
Yusupova Sabokhatxon A'zamjonovna +2 more
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, 2021 This paper focuses on Pisidian toponymy and ethnonymy and the persistence of Anatolian languages in the toponymy of the region. Toponymy and ethnonymy tell us much about territorial control of individual settlements, whether they be Anatolian or of exogenous (mainly Greek and Roman) origin.
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Toponimia andina: problemas y métodos
Lexis, 2015 While the interdisciplinary nature of the toponymy leads to a practice in which different disciplines are involved, one should not ignore the essential role of linguistics, the central role of it or what it should have in the proper toponymic scientific ...
Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino
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Volga toponym "Shigali" (etymological and folklore subjects)
Развитие образования, 2018 The article considers the etymology of the toponym Shigali. the spread of chuvash names of settlements as the chuvashes move from the lower reaches of the Volga to the Wild Field.
Yuriy N. Isaev
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