International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, ICOS XXIII
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Urban Name Environments in a Multicultural Perspective
(York University, 2009)What is a multicultural name environment? What names in a town or city are multicultural, and what reasons for and perspectives on name-giving are multicultural? How can an official name-giver best contribute to the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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; ... -
Atlasregister: Struktur, Systematik und Namensammlung (am Beispiel des Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
(York University, 2009)In diesem Beitrag wird versucht, einige semiotische Besonderheiten des Registersbandes des <Nationalatlas Deutschland> (NAD) zu zeigen. Dabei werden Inhaltsverzeichnis bezogene Informationen sowie informations-semiotische ... -
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 ... -
Basque Traces in the Toponymy of Newfoundland and Various Coasts of Atlantic Canada
(York University, 2009)Whereas the first and undoubtedly most important toponymic stratum of the island of Newfoundland and adjacent waters is Portuguese, the presence of Basques from the 1530s to the late 17th century on the South and West ... -
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 ... -
"Landskrona", "Sibirien" and "Jeriko": Borrowed Place Names in Sweden down the Ages
(York University, 2009)Since the Middle Ages, a succession of names has been added to the place nomenclature of Sweden that have been borrowed, ready-made, from other countries. In many cases, these names have the form native to Swedish, e.g., ... -
Slang Toponyms in Early Twentieth Century Helsinki
(York University, 2009)In this article, we analyse spatial slang coinages by boys and young men from Sörnäinen, a bilingual working-class neighbourhood in early twentieth century Helsinki (1900–1939). During this period, Helsinki slang developed ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Agrarian Landscapes and the Toponymy of Mediterranean Europe. Catalonia as a Case Study
(York University, 2009)In the countries of the European Mediterranean region (and, specifically, in the territories in which the Romance languages are spoken today), a significant part of the historical toponymy has close links with the rural ... -
La onomástica familiar sefardí como testimonio de algunos elementos léxicos aragoneses
(York University, 2009)La expulsión de los judíos de Aragón en 1492 no sólo supuso un drama humano, también lo fue cultural. Los sefardíes aragoneses, y en concreto los del norte de Aragón, se llevaron consigo, a las tierras de exilio de las ... -
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 ... -
Towards a Chronology of Topographical Elements in Irish Place-Names: Some Strategies for Establishing Relative Chronology
(York University, 2009)This paper examines the issues involved in establishing the chronology of elements referring to landscape features. Much work has been done on the Irish topographical lexicon in recent decades, notably by Prof. Liam Mac ...
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