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Reflection of Social and Political Changes in the Linguistic Landscape: Demonstrated by Examples From Banská Bystrica
(2023-12-21)
The paper analyses historical and political changes in the linguistic landscape (hereafter LL) using as exemplification the names of streets in Banská Bystrica (hereafter BB) which reflected significant social and political ...
The Influence of the Soviet Era on the Use of Estonian First Names
(2023-12)
The use of first names by Estonians is characterised by large variation and rapid turnover.
There are many artificially created names and new names are easily borrowed from other countries. There were no restrictions on ...
Towards a List of Place Names in Coptic
(2023-12-21)
This is a report on a project aiming to create a list of place names from Coptic textual sources. After an overview of the history of research concerning Coptic place names, I describe my method and the material on which ...
Anthroponymes conventionnels et non-conventionnels dans les textes dialectaux roumains
(2023-12-12)
This study, based on the published corpus of the Romanian dialectal texts, deals with the conventional (family names and first names – religious and secular names) and unconventional (surnames, nicknames, hypocoristics and ...
On the Slavicity of Several Place Names in North-Eastern Bavaria
(2023-12-21)
In his 2015 PhD thesis (published 2016) J. Andraschke investigated the oldest Germanic layers of names in North-Eastern Bavaria. In the course of the book the author deprived more than three dozen toponyms of their ...