Browsing International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, ICOS XXIII by Title
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Naming of Minivan Taxis Used for Public Transportation in the Caribbean
(York University, 2009)Private minivans have come to be used to augment the public bus transportation system on larger islands or else to provide the only regular transportation on smaller islands. This minivan system has been exported by ... -
A Natural History of Proper Naming in the Context of Emerging Mass Production: The Case of British Railway Locomotives before 1846
(York University, 2009)The early history of railway locomotives in Britain is marked by two striking facts. The first is that many were given proper names, even where there was no objective need to distinguish them in such a way. The second ... -
New Names for Municipalities Merging from Two or More Villages or Towns
(York University, 2009)For some decades many villages in the Netherlands have been merging into new municipalities. These new entities need a new name. The central assumption in this contribution is that every participating village or town ... -
Noms de famille composés ou composites? L’exemple de la Lorraine romane
(York University, 2009)Dans son <Traité d’anthroponymie française>, Albert Dauzat consacre quelques dizaines de lignes aux noms de famille composés. Or, la confrontation de cette description avec une sélection de surnoms et de noms de famille ... -
“nostro fratello Umberto”. Die Nomination zwischen Anthroponym und Klassifikation – eine kritisch-diskursanalytische Untersuchung zur printmedialen Repräsentation von Umberto Agnelli als Führungspersönlichkeit am Beispiel des italienischen Mediendiskurses
(York University, 2009)Soziale Akteure in diskursiven Repräsentationen können mit deren Personennamen (Umberto Agnelli) angeführt werden oder die Referenz kann mittels Nomination erfolgen (Il senatore della Fiat). Nomination ist eine spezielle ... -
Not an Empty Wasteland: Place Names in Canada’s North
(York University, 2009)Compared to many places in the world where indigenous people struggle to have their voices heard, Inuit in the Canadian Arctic are in an enviable position. Nunavut occupies 1/5 th of Canada’s land mass, a vast majority ... -
Old English 'meresteall' and Old Swedish '*marstall'. A Northwest Germanic Compound and Place Name Element?
(York University, 2009)In the province of Uppland in Sweden there is a village called 'Marstalla', written 'in marstaldum', 'in marstal' 1312. The first element has been interpreted as 'mar' (marsh, lake) or '*mar' (horse). In the latter case ... -
Old Hungarian River Names in the Multilingual Carpathian Basin
(York University, 2009)When analysing the etymological layers of Hungarian river names, it soon becomes clear that loan names make up a much larger group than in the group of settlement names, for instance. This fact can be due to the phenomenon ... -
On the Name of the Weekly Day of Rest
(York University, 2009)In antiquity, Jews developed the concept of a seven-day week with the seventh day, named ‘Shabbat’, devoted to rest and worship. This concept was later borrowed by other religions and cultures but the day of rest was ... -
<Onomastik und Akkulturation> Einblicke in das Saarbrücker Forschungsprojekt
(York University, 2009)Große Teile Süd- und Westeuropas sind in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter von den Begegnungen der römischen Zivilisation und des Christentums mit den gentilen Gesellschaften geprägt. Anders als in fast allen kulturellen ... -
Opening Remarks
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Opportunity or Threat? The Role of Minority Toponyms in the Linguistic Landscape
(York University, 2009)This paper will consider how the choice to include minority place-names on signs can constitute an act of renaming in itself. A relationship will also be shown between toponymy and studies of the "linguistic landscape" ... -
Oppositions in Toponymy
(York University, 2009)The paper is focused on semantic oppositions occurring in both settlement and non-settlement names from the territory of Bohemia. The “oppositions” are understood more broadly, comprising not only the antonymic semantic ... -
Ortsnamen und Ortsbeschreibungen im Gespräch und deren Relevanz für die soziale Strukturierung einer alpinen Gemeinschaft
(York University, 2009)Eigennamen werden in der namenkundlichen Forschung vorwiegend aus einer historischen Perspektive untersucht. In diesem Beitrag sollen onymische Einheiten einer synchronen Analyse unterzogen werden. Auf der Grundlage ... -
Ortsnamen, Siedlungslandschaften und Ethnien in der nordböhmischen Elbtallandschaft
(York University, 2009)Frühgeschichtliche Siedlungsareale lehnen sich häufig an den Lauf größerer oder kleinerer Flüsse an. Dies gilt auch für eine Reihe von Landschaften des Früh- und Hochmittelalters, die sich entlang der Elbe, nördlich und ... -
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 ...