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Mapping Digital Discourses of the Capital Region of Finland Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Jarmo Harri Jantunen,Terhi Ainiala,Salla Jokela,Jenny Tarvainen
This article discusses the three Finnish city names Helsinki, Espoo, and Vantaa, and the urban discourses that surround them. The study reveals patterns of socio-spatial differentiation by examining what meanings people attach to these capital region cities and investigating how these meanings are expressed in online discourses. Using the methodological approach of corpus-assisted onomastics (CAO)
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Spanish Place Names of the Falkland Islands Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Yliana V. Rodríguez
It has been argued that no Spanish toponymic inventory is used in the Falkland Islands (Woodman 2016). Nonetheless, maps attest to the presence of several Spanish names. The existence of these place names reflects the history of the area. Even though the Falklands currently host an English-speaking community, the Islands have a long history of Spanish-speaking settlers. The former Spanish administration
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ANS Call for Papers for MLA 2023 Conference Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Maggie Scott
The American Name Society is issuing a call for papers for the Modern Language Association Convention 2023 which is scheduled to take place January 5-8, 2023 in San Francisco, California.
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Book Review "A History of the Twentieth Century in 100 Maps" Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Christine DeVinne
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Revisiting Semantic Issues of Proper Names Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Nguyen Viet Khoa
The semantic status of proper names in linguistics and language philosophy has been comprehensively studied. It has long been held that proper names are mainly used to refer to certain entities, not to describe them. However, while Millian theorists claim that proper names do not possess a lexical meaning but directly refer to a certain entity, Fregean scholars assert that proper names do carry meanings
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Name of the Year Report 2021 Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 I. M. Nick
The fifteenth annual Name of the Year vote was held during the online annual conference of the American Name Society on January 23, 2022. The vote was chaired by Deborah Walker, the ANS Name of the Year Coordinator, and was attended by 23 international onomasticians. This report provides a summary of the deliberations and gives background information about the onomastic nominations.
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Corn Belt as an Enterprise-Naming Custom in the United States Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Michael D. Sublett
Enterprises, be they for-profit businesses or not-for-profit organizations, require names to differentiate themselves from other entities. Over a span of more than a hundred years entrepreneurs, corporate boards, and organizational founders have chosen to use Corn Belt or some spelling variant to identify their enterprises, perhaps believing that naming after this admired agricultural region will bless
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Revised Typology of Place-Naming Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 David Blair,Jan Tent
A functional and systematic typology of toponyms is an essential instrument for the toponymist wishing to investigate the naming practices and patterns of a region. To this end, the Australian National Placenames Survey developed a toponym typology for Australia (Tent & Blair 2011). This was characterized as a ‘typology of motivations for naming’. Although various researchers have used this typology
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How Three Different Translators of The Holy Qur’an Render Anthroponyms from Arabic into English Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Mahmoud Afrouz
The present paper examines anthroponyms in the Holy Qur'an in three different English translations to shed light on how procedures used by translators can help target-language (TL) readers understand the implied meaning of anthroponyms. In order to conduct the research, the anthroponyms in the Holy Qur'an were isolated and English equivalents were identified. Then Vermes’s (2003) model was applied
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2020 Award for Best Article in NAMES Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 I. M. Nick
For more than a decade, the American Name Society has singled out an outstanding article to be given the Best Article of the Year Award. To select the publication to receive this prestigious honor, each of the members of the Editorial Board independently reviewed all of the articles that had been published in 2020.
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Rhetorics of Names and Naming Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Maggie Scott
Rhetorics of Names and Naming. Edited By Star Medzerian Vanguri. New York & London: Routledge. 2016. Pp. xi + 224. $52.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781138599574; $190 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781138910638; $47.65 (E-book), ISBN: 9781315693347.
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Dictionary of French Family Names in North America Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 André Lapierre
Dictionary of French Family Names in North America. By Marc Picard. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. Pp xxvi + 719. ISBN:1-5275-5853-3; ISBN13: 978-1-5275-5853-3. £80.99 (Paperback).
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Note of Remembrance in Honor of Edwin David Lawson (December 23, 1923—July 3, 2021) Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Aaron Demsky
This note of remembrance is written for the eminent onomastician Edwin David Lawson.
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“Boundary-Maintenance” or “Boundary-Crossing”? Name-Giving Practices among Immigrants in Germany Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Jurgen Gerhards,Julia Tuppat
This study investigates why some immigrants choose names for their children that are common in their home country whereas others opt for names used by natives in the host country. Drawing on the sociological literature on symbolic boundaries, the first strategy can be described as boundary-maintenance whereas the second can be classified as boundary-crossing. Using data from the German Socio-Economic
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Usernames on a Finnish Online Marketplace for Illegal Drugs Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Lasse Hämäläinen,Ari Haasio,J. Tuomas Harviainen
Usernames play a major role in online communication by providing a vital first impression and including clues about the identities and personal characteristics of users. Usernames are extremely important in the online trade of illegal drugs, which carries several risks and therefore requires a high degree of trust between the transaction parties. This study examines how sellers and buyers of illegal
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Corpus-Based Methods for Recognizing the Gender of Anthroponyms Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Rogelio Nazar,Irene Renau,Nicolas Acosta,Hernan Robledo,Maha Soliman,Sofıa Zamora
This paper presents a series of methods for automatically determining the gender of proper names, based on their co-occurrence with words and grammatical features in a large corpus. Although the results obtained were for Spanish given names, the method presented here can be easily replicated and used for names in other languages. Most methods reported in the literature use pre-existing lists of first
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Memoriam: Edwin D. Lawson (1923-2021) Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Thomas Gasque
In Memoriam: Edwin D. Lawson (1923-2021)
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Names and Naming Practices of the Telugu in Malaysia Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Thilagavathi Shanmuganathan,Malarvizhi Sinayah,Selvajothi Ramalingam,Thanalachime Perumal
Names and naming practices reflect the socio-cultural background of a community. The giving of names is therefore not merely an act of labelling but represents constructs of identity that reflect the collective self-representation of a community and its worldviews. This study examines the naming practices of the Telugu in Malaysia and investigates the morphological structure and the semantic properties
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Turkish Patronymic Surnames Ending with -oğlu ‘Son of Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-05-14 Gülden Tüm
This study examines Turkish patronymic surnames ending with the suffix -oğlu ‘son of.’ For this examination, this investigation compiled three corpora of Turkish surnames (N = 10,369) representative of the Turkish population. The aim of this corpus analysis was the identification of the conceptual and grammatical functional elements of these surnames as markers of linguistic and cultural diversity
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Name of the Year Report 2020 Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Laurel Sutton
The fourteenth annual Name of the Year vote was held online by the American Name Society on January 24, 2021. The discussion was moderated by ANS President Laurel Sutton and former Name of the Year Coordinator, Dr. Cleveland Evans. The event was attended virtually by 23 scholars from around the globe. This report provides a summary of the deliberations and onomastic selections.
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Essential Self of Natalie Waite in Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Susan J. Behrens
In light of a 2016 biography and 2020 feature film about writer Shirley Jackson, contemporary readers are rediscovering Jackson’s work. One novel of interest is Hangsaman (1951). This is a book in motion, with shifting realities and narratives that are mirrored in the author’s naming schemes. Moments of disorientation in Hangsaman originate in, and reflect, the inner life of protagonist Natalie Waite
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Call for Papers for a Special Issue of NAMES Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Luisa Caiazzo
The Vice President of the American Name Society, Dr. Luisa Caiazzo, is issuing a call for papers for a specialissue of NAMES on the selection and meaning of toponyms in works of fiction.
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Developing the Gaois Linguistic Database of Irish-language Surnames Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Brian Ó Raghallaigh,Michal Boleslav Měchura,Aengus Ó Fionnagáin,Sophie Osborne
It is now commonplace to see surnames written in the Irish language in Ireland, yet there is no online resource for checking the standard spelling and grammar of Irish-language surnames. We propose a data structure for handling Irish-language surnames which comprises bilingual (Irish–English) clusters of surname forms. We present the first open, data-driven linguistic database of common Irish-language
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Sound Symbolism in Baseball Player Names Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Stephanie S. Shih,Deniz Rudin
Recent work has argued that sound symbolism plays a much larger part in language than previously believed, given the assumption of the arbitrariness of the sign. A slate of recent papers on Pokémonastics, for example, has found sound symbolic associations to be rampant in Pokémon names cross-linguistically. In this paper, we explore a real-world dataset that parallels Pokémon, in which human players
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Rosenberg by Any Other Name Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Beth DiNatale Johnson
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish NameChanging in America. By KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH. New York: NewYork University Press. 2018. Pp. v þ 245. $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-6720-2.
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Award for Best Article in NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics 2019 Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 I. M. Nick
(2020). Award for Best Article in NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics 2019. Names: Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 247-248.
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“A Change of Name during Sickness”: Surveying the Widespread Practice of Renaming in Response to Physical Illness Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Russell Fielding
This paper synthesizes and summarizes a selection of literature—largely anthropological and ethnographic, published between the early 18th and early 21st centuries—that describes the practice of renaming a person who is physically ill in order to effect their recovery. In none of these publications is this particular practice central; rather, it is often mentioned alongside myriad other cultural and
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“Boundary-Maintenance” or “Boundary-Crossing”? Name-Giving Practices among Immigrants in Germany Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Jürgen Gerhards, Julia Tuppat
This study investigates why some immigrants choose names for their children that are common in their home country whereas others opt for names used by natives in the host country. Drawing on the sociological literature on symbolic boundaries, the first strategy can be described as boundary-maintenance whereas the second can be classified as boundary-crossing. Using data from the German Socio-Economic
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Corpus-Based Methods for Recognizing the Gender of Anthroponyms Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Rogelio Nazar, Irene Renau, Nicolás Acosta, Hernán Robledo, Maha Soliman, Sofía Zamora
This paper presents a series of methods for automatically determining the gender of proper names, based on their co-occurrence with words and grammatical features in a large corpus. Although the results obtained were for Spanish given names, the method presented here can be easily replicated and used for names in other languages as well. Most methods reported in the literature use pre-existing lists
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Of the Same Breath: Indigenous Animal and Place Names Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Thomas J. Gasque
(2020). Of the Same Breath: Indigenous Animal and Place Names. Names: Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 240-246.
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Beth DiNatale Johnson
(2020). A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America. Names. Ahead of Print.
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Naming the Sacred: Religious Toponymy in History, Theology and Politics Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Brandon Simonson
(2020). Naming the Sacred: Religious Toponymy in History, Theology and Politics. Names: Vol. 68, No. 4, pp. 238-240.
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Urbanonyms and Their Linguistic Properties in Italian Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-09-03 Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Haiping Long
The goal of this article is to offer an overview of Italian urbanonyms by analyzing the grammatical and lexical properties of urbanonyms from four cities (Rome, Naples, Milan, and Venice). A classification is offered via data extracted from each city’s PagineGialle ‘Yellow Pages’ street directories, from which three key results emerge. First, Italian urbanonyms mostly involve two distinct constructions:
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Wherefore Art Thou Juanita? The Life of a Spanish Name in Newfoundland Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-08-21 Ainsley Hawthorn
The name Juanita should have been an unlikely candidate for popularity in a place like Newfoundland, where only 0.1% of the half-a-million population speaks Spanish as a mother tongue and 0.4% identifies as having Spanish, Latin American, Central American, or South American ethnic origins. Nonetheless, the name is a well established member of the Newfoundland onomasticon. Drawing on archival research
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Geographical Accuracy of Place-Based Collegiate Athletic Conference Names in the United States Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Michael D. Sublett
College athletic competition constitutes a significant aspect of life in the United States. Virtually, every institution of higher learning fields intercollegiate teams in a multitude of sporting activities. Most colleges and universities join an organization, a conference of similar institutions, to enhance competition. Some also join single-sport conferences in order to participate in sports that
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The Art of Naming Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 I. M. Nick
(2020). The Art of Naming. Names. Ahead of Print.
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“Harry, You Must Stop Living in the Past:” Names as Acts of Recall in John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 Peter Backhaus
This paper studies the function of names as a stylistic device in literary fiction. The data are taken from John Updike’s Rabbit series, which depicts the life of US American Everyman Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Special focus is on Harry’s peculiar habit of calling people and places by names that are no longer up to date: former nicknames, maiden names, names of shops
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The Symbolic Power of Place Names: The Case of the River Olše/Olza/Łolza in Northeastern Czechia Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-07-21 Přemysl Mácha
It is not uncommon for place names to become symbols of national identity. Once in that position, such names often play a significant symbolic role in national and local politics. It is less common, however, for actual place name usage to significantly contradict declared place name preferences such that for official purposes people prefer a name variant that they do not use themselves. This article
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Black Rising: An Editorial Note on the Increasing Popularity of a US American Racial Ethnonym Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 I. M. Nick
In historic protests sparked by the wrongful deaths of US civilians, demonstrators have taken to the streets in record numbers demanding justice and an end to institutionalized racism. US media coverage of this movement has frequently utilized the racial ethnonym Black as opposed to African(-)American. As this note discusses, this choice in nomenclature may not only be due to the increasing prominence
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Ambivalence, Avoidance, and Appeal: Alliterative Aspects of Anglo Anthroponyms Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Stephen J. Bush
In several countries, one of the most pronounced trends in contemporary baby naming is selecting a comparatively uncommon name. Nevertheless, although a well-documented phenomenon, studies of uncommon name use are often limited to forenames. This study analyses approximately 22 million full names from England and 1 million from Wales, given between 1838 and 2014. It addresses the hypothesis that, consistent
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In the Name of Freedom: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Personal Names Recorded in Fugitive Slave Advertisements Published in New York and New Jersey 18th Century Newspapers Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 I. M. Nick
The ubiquitous image of the sprawling 19th century Southern plantation has meant that much of the research on US slave names has focussed on regions below the mid-Atlantic (Desrochers 2002). The resulting lack of attention that has been given to other times and spaces has necessarily limited our collective understanding of slave naming patterns. The purpose of the current investigation is to help address
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Women’s Marital Surname Change by Bride’s Age and Jurisdiction of Residence: A Replication Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-06-12 Melanie MacEacheron
Hyphenating or keeping premarital surname for all U.S. destination brides marrying in Hawai’i in 2010 was highly, positively correlated with a state-level women’s income measure (r = .78, p < .000) and the analogous statistic for men (r = .64, p < .000), by bride’s state of residence. The women’s measure, only, remained significant when both predictors were used, together, to predict retention/hyphenation
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Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Brandon Simonson
(2020). Personal Names in the Aramaic Inscriptions of Hatra. Names: Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 185-187.
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Changing Names: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Grant W. Smith
(2020). Changing Names: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics. Names: Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 187-191.
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On Sound Symbolism in Baseball Player Names Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Stephanie S. Shih, Deniz Rudin
Recent work has argued that sound symbolism plays a much larger part in language than previously believed, given the assumption of the arbitrariness of the sign. A slate of recent papers on Pokémonastics, for example, has found sound symbolic associations to be rampant in Pokémon names cross-linguistically. In this paper, we explore a real-world dataset that parallels Pokémon, in which human players
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A Preliminary Study on the Nicknames of the FIFA National Football Teams Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-05-06 Wang Feng, Zhang Shuyue, Chen Cheng
This study examines 315 nicknames of all the 211 FIFA national football teams (NFTs) as of January 2020. A preliminary analysis of these nicknames shows that they have statistically significant differences, suggesting subtle intercultural variation worthy of further investigation. It is hoped that this initial foray into these nicknames will inspire in-depth academic research at the continental and
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The Surnames Handbook: A Guide to Family Name Research in the 21st Century, By Debbie Kennett Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-04-20 I. M. Nick
(2020). The Surnames Handbook: A Guide to Family Name Research in the 21st Century, By Debbie Kennett. Names: Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 127-130.
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Name of the Year 2019 Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-04-06 Cleve Evans
(2020). Name of the Year 2019. Names: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 42-45.
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Powhatan Indian Place Names in Tidewater Virginia, By Martha W. McCartney and Helen C. Rountree Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Priscilla A. Ord
(2020). Powhatan Indian Place Names in Tidewater Virginia, By Martha W. McCartney and Helen C. Rountree. Names: Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 125-126.
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The Linguistics of Name Translation: Preferred Personal and Business Names in English, Korean, and Chinese Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-24 Jong-mi Kim
This research examines personal and business names and their translations among typologically contrastive languages: English, Korean, and Chinese. A linguistic framework is proposed that predicts and tests whether and how ideal translations will be based on sound or meaning, as defined by the phonetic or semantic features of the given orthography. Two separate surveys (online in the US and onsite in
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Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-20 Heiko Motschenbacher
This study investigates the grammatical behavior of English country names based on corpus linguistic evidence. An overview of the basic patterns of definite article use with country names as commonly described in English reference grammars and of the morphological structures of English country names is presented. Against this backdrop, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is used to explore
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Donald J. Orth (1925–2019) Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 By I. M. Nick
(2020). Donald J. Orth (1925–2019) Names: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 54-57.
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Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island. Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Luisa Caiazzo
(2020). Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island. Names: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 46-48.
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Simplex Generic Toponyms in Four English-speaking Jurisdictions Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Jan Tent
Toponymic literature generally recognizes three main structures in English: those with a specific + generic element (e.g. Tweed River, Mount White); those that consist of a specific element alone (e.g. Perth, Washington); and less commonly, those with a generic element preceded by the definite article (e.g. The Bend, The Bluff). There are of course combinations and variations on these three (e.g. The
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Mapping Shakespeare’s World Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-19 Lisa Berglund
(2020). Mapping Shakespeare’s World. Names: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 48-51.
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Name This Child: Religious Identity and Ideology in Tiv Personal Names Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-12 Eyo O. Mensah
This article investigates the motivations and ideological foundations of religion-based personal names among a sampled population of the Tiv community who are predominantly found along the middle Benue Valley in Benue State, North-central Nigeria. The names bestowed by adherents of different religions (traditional Tiv, Christianity and Islam) reflect a personally determined system of representation
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Corpus Linguistic Onomastics: A Plea for a Corpus-Based Investigation of Names Names (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2020-03-11 Heiko Motschenbacher
Corpus linguistics is, to date, still an underexplored methodology in onomastics. This article seeks to advance the field through a theoretical discussion of onomastic issues from a corpus linguistic point of view. It presents an overview of the linguistic status, meaning and grammar of proper names in order to highlight aspects that lend themselves to corpus linguistic inquiry. Earlier onomastic research