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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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RUNNING UP THAT HILL - Italian civic addresses and the quest for accuracy
GEOmedia, 2018 The quality of toponymy data has come increasingly under the microscope in recent years. These augmentations infiltrating the sector now require extremely accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive data, most crucially in respect of, for example, the ...
Valerio Zunino
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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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, 2015 El presente volumen de Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics tiene como objetivo mostrar la importancia de la Onomástica para el estudio de la lengua, en especial del léxico y la etimología.
Casanova, Emili +2 more
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Ecological Research, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 543-562, July 2024.This study aimed to establish an updated checklist of serpentinophytes (vascular plants linked to ultramafic rocks) in the southern Iberian Peninsula and understand their distribution across different ultramafic lithologies. The findings revealed 28 serpentinophytes across various rock types, with certain rocks showing higher occupancy, possibly due to
Andrés V. Pérez‐Latorre +4 more
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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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TOPONIMYS WITH ANCIENT TURK ORIGINS IN THE BALKANS [PDF]
, 2013 One of the sources dealing with the ancient Turkic history are toponyms.Toponymic investigations show that most of the ancient geographical names whichhave spread in Eurosia, in Central Asia, from North Africa, to Eastern Turkistaneven in Siberia and ...
Hajiyeva Galiba
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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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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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