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Hamburger Straßen-, Brücken- und Flurnamen – grundlegend neu erklärt

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Bisher gibt es zwei einschlägige Publikationen über die 9.000 Hamburger Straßen- und Brückennamen, in denen aber die Behandlung der in Hamburger Straßennamen enthaltenen Flurnamen zu kurz kommt. In dem einen Buch von Christian Hanke von 1997 (5. Aufl. 2014) werden die meisten Flurnamen einfach…

Place Names and Migration

Proceedings of the Symposium in Vienna, 6–8 November 2019

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Under the auspices of the Joint ICA/IGU Commission on Toponymy a symposium took place in Vienna resulting in these proceedings. The topic of the symposium and this book, place names in the context of migration, was approached in two ways: synchronically, i.e. with reference to modern migration situations, and…

The Classification of Exonyms

Proceedings of the 21st UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Riga [Rīga], 24–26 September 2018

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Exonyms involve the adaptation of geographical names from a donor language into a receiver language, and they reflect the fascinating movement and interaction of peoples around the world. The Working Group on Exonyms of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) was established by resolution…

The Diachrony and Synchrony of Language and Dialect Phenomena in Great Britain

Distribution and Development of English Surname Clusters

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Die Gesamtheit der britischen Nachnamen stellt einen einzigartigen Teil des englischen Vokabulars dar, weil sie parallel zur Standardsprache eine unterschiedliche Entwicklung durchlief. Vor der Einführung eines Rechtschreibstandards um 1700 herum war die historische Schreibweise nicht einheitlich und führte dadurch…

A Survey of Exonym Use

Proceedings of the 19th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Prague [Praha], 6-8 April 2017

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

The Working Group (WG) on Exonyms of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names was established in 2002. The papers in this volume of Name & Place, marking the 19 th Meeting of the WG in Prague in 2017, represent a cross-section of the knowledge acquired after 15 years of collective activities, in…

Place-Name Changes

Proceedings of the Symposion in Rome, 17–18 November 2014

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Languages are promoted by political powers and are dependent on them. In a historical dimension languages come and go depending on political support. Place names as elements of language are part of this historical fluctuation. Due to their symbolic role as markers of geographical features, territories and…

Criteria for the Use of Exonyms

Proceedings of the 17th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Zagreb, 14–16 May 2015

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Authors and editors of maps, atlases and all kinds of text publications, including articles in newspapers, as well as journalists of the electronic media, frequently face the problem of which name to use for a geographical feature outside their own country or linguistic community. If a choice of names is available,…

The Quest for Definitions

Proceedings of the 14th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Corfu, 23–25 May 2013

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Why is it that the topic of exonyms, and more precisely the endonym / exonym divide, attracts so much interest and is so much disputed? It is perhaps because this divide arises when a geographical name is considered within the relationship between a name-using community and the feature bearing this name – is the…

Toponyms in Cartography

Proceedings of the Toponymic Sessions at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

The ICA 25th International Cartographic Conference in Paris in July 2011 is special from a toponymical point of view because it marks the first meeting of the joint ICA-IGU Commission on Toponymy. Toponymy has been a regular theme for international cartographic conferences for decades, and it is only proper that…

Trends in Exonym Use

Proceedings of the 10^th UNGEGN Working Group on Exonyms Meeting, Tainach, 28-30 April 2010

Name & Place – Contributions to Toponymic Literature and Research

Exonyme im Sinne von geographischen Namen für Objekte außerhalb des eigenen Sprachgebiets zählen neben Namen in mehrsprachigen Gebieten zu den strittigsten Themen in der Toponymie. Sie werden oft als Ausdruck von Besitzansprüchen oder einer nostalgischen Haltung gedeutet. Auch in der 1967 gegründeten Expertengruppe…