Browsing International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, ICOS XXIII by Title
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Faut-il avoir peur des exonymes … dans son propre pays? Le cas «surréaliste» de la Belgique
(York University, 2009)La Belgique se partage entre trois régions (flamande, wallonne et bruxelloise) et entre trois communautés distinctes (de langue française, néerlandaise et allemande). Seule la Région bruxelloise est officiellement bilingue; ... -
Female Names and Male Names. Equality between the Sexes
(York University, 2009)A recent contribution to the discussion about equality between the sexes in Sweden concerns the question of whether given names should be related to biological sex. The usual pattern of given names in the Germanic world ... -
‘Find the lady’: The Term 'lady' in English and Scottish Place-Names
(York University, 2009)The term 'lady' serves as the qualifying element of a number of place-names in the British Isles, and has a range of applications. This paper presents a corpus of such names from north-west England and south-east Scotland, ... -
First Names of Fictional Characters in Novels by Charlotte Bronte
(York University, 2009)The first name is a distinctive personal label. It usually distinguishes oneself from other family members and from most other people. In common with other novelists, Charlotte Bronte chose for many fictional characters ... -
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Forms and Norms: Theorizing Immigration-Influenced Name Changes in Canada
(York University, 2009)Canadian immigration and settlement practices have been altering individuals’ names since the mid-1800s. From the common explanations of immigration officials engaging in novel orthography as they completed forms, to ... -
Forms of Address in the College Classroom
(York University, 2009)Forms of address are a critical component of language. They can be used to set the tone of a communicative exchange and index social status. Many languages encode these linguistic forms directly into their grammar; ... -
The Functions of (In)definiteness Markers with Proper Names
(York University, 2009)Crosslinguistically, we observe various onymic functions of the definite article that hardly occur in appellatives (common nouns). Since names are inherently definite, languages can ‘play’ with the redundant overt definite ... -
Functions of Usage of Urban Place Names
(York University, 2009)The following paper introduces various functions of urban place names by analyzing spoken data gathered from residents in the neighbourhood Kallio in Helsinki, Finland. The data consists of six group interviews, in which ... -
The German Surname Atlas Project – Computer-Based Surname Geography
(York University, 2009)The <German Surname Atlas> (<Deutscher Familiennamenatlas>, DFA) project is presented below. The surname maps are based on German fixed network telephone lines (in 2005) with German postal districts as graticules. In our ... -
A Glimpse through a Dirty Window into an Unlit House: Names of Some North-West European Islands
(York University, 2009)It is well known that many of the major island-names of the archipelago consisting politically of Ireland, the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies are etymologically obscure. In this paper, I present and analyse a ... -
Greek Personal Names in Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul: A Brief Survey
(York University, 2009)Ever since ancient times, even before the Roman conquest, there were people and groups in Gaul speaking Greek, so that in the towns of Roman Gaul the Greek communities later became motive factors of Christianisation. It ... -
Greetings
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Gutmann und Bonhomme: Ein durchsichtiger, aber schwer zu deutender Name
(York University, 2009)Die meisten Interpreten der Flurnamen dt 'Gutmann' gehen von mittelhochdeutschen Bildungen wie 'guotliutehus' ‹Leproserium› und 'feldsiech' ‹Aussätziger› aus und schliessen daraus, dass das Kompositum 'guotman' ‹guter ... -
„HiMAT – History of Mining Activities in the Tyrol and Adjacent Areas“ – ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt mit onomastischer Beteiligung
(York University, 2009)Der Bergbau in Tirol hat nicht nur Erze, Mineralien und Salz hervorgebracht; er hat seine Spuren auch im Namenmaterial hinterlassen. Dieses auf synchroner und diachroner Basis zu erheben und im Hinblick auf eine ... -
Historical Multilingualism of Street Names in Estonia
(York University, 2009)The earliest recordings of street names in Estonia have been preserved since the 14th century; names in Tallinn were written in Latin and Low German. Later, in the 16th and 17th century, in northern Estonia (Tallinn) ... -
Human Evaluation in Russian Appellative Anthroponymy (on Zauralye Archival Sources of the 16th–19th Centuries)
(York University, 2009)This paper deals with research on Russian anthroponyms using an analysis based on the linguocultural concept of “human evaluation”. The original handwritten records created in the Zauralye territory during the 16th–19th ... -
Interactive Digital Version of the <Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms> (Minor Place Names)
(York University, 2009)The paper deals with the routines used by Brno linguists working on the <Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms>; this publication will be not only a traditional paper dictionary, but primarily, it will have a ... -
Interkulturelle Ortsnamen in Zentralkleinasien und Galatische Geschichte
(York University, 2009)Die Ortsnamenforschung zum kleinasiatischen Galatien hat zwar in den letzten Jahren erhebliche Fortschritte gemacht, doch werden auch sie der Massivität weder des primären noch des sekundären keltischen Einschlags in ... -
Jewish Surname Changes in Hungary (19th–20th Century)
(York University, 2009)The paper presents Jewish surname changes as a part of the phenomenon of surname changes in Hungary, as well as a part of the history of Jewish communities in a surrounding majority. It is based on social historical ...