Results 51 to 60 of about 1,030 (134)
Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 69, Issue 1, Spring / printemps 2025.Abstract North America is characterized by an expansive continental plain that has been described as platter‐flat. Yet this central continental plain includes isolated uplands that some people call mountains. The hill‐mountain muddle is a classic problem of geomorphology, arising from the challenge of discriminating continuous, attached forms.
Murray M. Humphries +3 more
wiley +1 more source
, 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
openaire +2 more sources
Place-Naming (Toponymy) of Kecamatan in Bandung: A Morphological Study
Ideas, 2020 This study aims to analyze the morphological processes occupied in place-naming of Kecamatan in Bandung and attempts to classify the place-naming of Kecamatan in Bandung based on toponymy rules by Nash (2015).
Intan Siti Nugraha +2 more
doaj +1 more source
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 1490-1504, November 2024.Debates about the impacts of human settlement on Madagascar's habitat have missed the Malagasy perspective. Using indigenous and local knowledge in the form of toponyms, we find many regions across today's treeless grasslands are named after forest/trees, suggesting they may be novel.
Grant S. Joseph +4 more
wiley +1 more source
BASQUE LANGUAGE AND BASQUE TOPONYMY: INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS AND STANDARTISATION
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 The Basque language (euskera) is an isolate language spoken by about one million people in northeast Spain and southwest France. According to the most common version about its origin the Basque language is of Aquitanian origin.
Olga S Chesnokova, Liana M Dzhishkariani
doaj +1 more source
Sense of Place in Latin America: Mobilities, Territorialities, and Fear
Geography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2024.ABSTRACT Sense of place has become relevant in Latin America in recent decades. Although many scholars have looked at people‐place relationships there, language barriers have limited the international exposure of these studies. By assembling a collection of works mainly published in Spanish and Portuguese, we trace the fields of research where the ...
Adrián Ortega‐Iturriaga +3 more
wiley +1 more source
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
doaj
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
doaj
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj