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Papers given at ICOS XXIII, but not included in this volume
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Patterns in the Names of Māori Representative Sportsmen in New Zealand, 1884–2007
(York University, 2009)Since the late nineteenth century, just over 2,200 men have represented New Zealand in rugby union, rugby league and cricket. Of these men 310 are known to have Māori ancestry. In this paper six questions are asked of ... -
Personal Names of Livonian Origin in Latvia: Past and Present
(York University, 2009)The anthroponymic system of Latvian – one of the Baltic languages – contains many borrowed names: anthroponyms of German, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Lithuanian and also Finno-Ugric (Livonian, Estonian, and Finnish) origin. ... -
Place Names as Identity Markers
(York University, 2009)Place-names are first and foremost labels attached to one’s surroundings, as useful today as in prehistoric times. Since place-names have been coined as descriptions of the features in question, or of circumstances that ... -
Place Names in the Construction of Social Identities: The Uses of Names of Helsinki
(York University, 2009)Toponyms are used not only to identify places, but also to accomplish many relevant social and interactional tasks. In a conversation speakers may use diverse forms of a toponym or different names to refer to the same ... -
Pointy Helmets and Buckteeth: Naming in Sign Language – an Exploration
(York University, 2009)Proper names exist in all cultures and carry a special meaning for the name bearers and name givers. Within the Deaf community, names given can be for official or everyday usage as well as restricted to use only within ... -
Political Issues in Australian Aboriginal Toponymies
(York University, 2009)Briefly we consider some of the political issues that arise in relation to Australian Aboriginal place names. First, we look at Aboriginal place names in Land Claim and Native Title cases through which there has been a ... -
Pre-Christian Sacral Personal Names in Scandinavia during the Proto-Scandinavian Period
(York University, 2009)This paper deals with personal names from the Proto-Scandinavian period that refer to religious concepts such as gods or holiness. Such names fall into four categories. The first one contains '*ansuz' (as; heathen god) ... -
The Presentation of Saami Place-Names on Swedish Maps during 100 Years
(York University, 2009)My essay is a critical view of the process of standardizing Saami place-names on the official maps in Sweden. The starting-point of the essay are the Saami place-names that were first published on the ordnance maps at ... -
Probleme der deutschen Straßennamenchronologie und -typologie im Zeitabschnitt von 862 bis 1711 auf dem von Madjaren besiedelten Gebiet des Karpatenbeckens
(York University, 2009)Im Karpatenbecken hat sich das selbständige finnisch–ugrische Siedlungsnamensystem zwischen 985 und 1055 herausgebildet. Die endgültige Ausbildung des mittelalterlichen Städtewesens auf dem ganzen Gebiet des ehemaligen ... -
Proper Names in Education: Global Tendencies and Local Traditions
(York University, 2009)Within the higher education field proper names can be confusing as identifying them and tracing their occurences is quite a difficult task. Not only is their history quite unclear. They occur and function in our conceptual ... -
Proper Names in Second Language Classroom Interaction: An Initial Investigation into the Use of First Names in Instruction Sequences
(York University, 2009)In this article, I present some initial results of a study on the use of first names in school interactions. I assume that first names are not only used to refer to persons, which is well established, but also to accomplish ... -
Proper Names in the Lithuanian Translation of Yann Martel’s <Life of Pi>
(York University, 2009)Proper names which are rendered by various methods are found in many works of Canadian literature, recently translated into Lithuanian. In this paper, I analyze one of these, Yann Martel’s <Life of Pi>. Proper names are ... -
Renaming Indigenous Toponymy in Official Use in the Light of Contact Onomastic Theories
(York University, 2009)From the 1870’s, Norwegian authorities began to give instructions for the ways in which the indigenous Sámi toponymy had to be changed into Norwegian in official place name use. These instructions concerned especially ... -
Restrictions on Alliteration and Rhyme in the Swedish System of Personal Names in the Light of Old Germanic Parallels
(York University, 2009)I intend to demonstrate that the Swedish surname system is characterized by certain morphophonotactic restrictions, including a reluctance to use rhyme and alliteration in dithematic surnames, as for example in the following, ... -
"Rodskarl", "Trynta" and "Spænneklo". Bynames in the Town Court Record Book of Arboga from a Name-Semantic Point of View
(York University, 2009)The town court record book of Arboga is a valuable source relating to life in Sweden during the Middle Ages. It includes legal records and particulars of economic transactions such as transfers of real estate, donations ... -
Romanian-Ukrainian Connections in the Anthroponymy of the Northwestern Part of Romania
(York University, 2009)The first contacts between Romance speakers and the Slavic people took place between the 7th and the 11th centuries both to the North and to the South of the Danube. These contacts continued through the centuries till ... -
Rufnamen in Riga im 15. Jahrhundert
(York University, 2009)Die Rigaer Rufnamen im 15. Jahrhundert werden anhand des Kämmerei-Registers der Stadt beschrieben und analysiert. Die mittelniederdeutsch verfasste Quelle umfasst die Zeitperiode von 1405 bis 1475 und ist sowohl als ... -
Settlement Name Strata in the Multilingual Carpathian Basin
(York University, 2009)When entering the Carpathian Basin in the 9th century, the Hungarians found a decisively Slavic population on the territory, so toponyms were formed based on the already existing toponymic system. Hungarian toponymic ... -
Signed Languages, Linguistic Rights and the Standardization of Geographical Names
(York University, 2009)Over the last forty years, there has been considerable international work on country names, their exonyms and their standardization. This work has been based on official written names. In contrast, this paper examines ...