Browsing International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, ICOS XXIII by Title
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Why Many Dutch Surnames Look So Archaic: The Exceptional Orthographic Position of Names
(York University, 2009)In the 19th century, several scholars in the Netherlands worked on a standardization of spelling of words. Only just after World War II, a uniform spelling was codified. Nobody, however, seemed to care about, or even to ... -
Wisdom of the Ages: From Houses to Monsters, the Naming Practices of the Coast Tsimshian Nation
(York University, 2009)Prior to European contact, there were no written indigenous languages. Canada’s First Peoples relied on the ‘truth’ of ancestral oral narratives passed down through thousands of years of observation, knowledge, wisdom ... -
WULEVÙ würstel? Eine Darstellung produktgruppenspezifischer Aspekte italienischer Markennamen des Lebensmittelmarktes
(York University, 2009)Für die linguistische Forschung gelten Markennamen aufgrund ihres ausgeprägten Praxisbezugs und der Vielfalt des verwendeten sprachlichen Materials als wesentliche Bereicherung. Unter allen Namenarten stellen Bezeichnungen ... -
"Zwartje", "Flight of Delight" and "Chikai": Borrowed Names for Animals in Sweden
(York University, 2009)This paper deals, from a Swedish point of view, with names for domestic animals that have been borrowed from other language areas and other cultures during the last two or three centuries. There are several different ...