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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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NEW WORLD BASQUE TOPONYMY IN THE DIALOGUE OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2018 This paper investigates the Basque toponymy in Canada, the USA, and Spanish speaking Latin America and determines various aspects of its static and dynamic.
OLGA STANISLAVOVNA CHESNOKOVA +2 more
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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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Sequencing toponymic change: A quantitative longitudinal analysis of street renaming in Sibiu, Romania. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Rusu MS.
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