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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Place names"”.
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Word formation of place names in old english /
Word Formation of Place Names in Old English This bachelor thesis is focused on word formation of place-names in Old English. The aim of this bachelor paper is to analyse word formation types of place-names found in Old English Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. To accomplish it, the following objectives were …
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Place names in the northwest counties of Missouri
Counties: Atchison, Holt, Nodaway, Andrew, Buchanan, Worth, Gentry, DeKalb, Clinton, Harrison, Daviess, and Caldwell
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Place names in the central counties of Missouri
… sources are yet available, the origin of the. names of the towns, streams, country schools, and townships of the following central counties of Missouri: Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau, and Saline; to record the circumstances under which the names were given; and to note the …
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A study of place-names of Clarke county, Mississippi
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
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First Nations Place Names from Cadboro Bay to Millstream
This thesis built a database of 100 First Nations place names from Cadboro Bay to Millstream to answer: What are the First Nations place names for Victoria, British Columbia? Maps are essential tools in the on-going colonization of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Today, many First Nations …
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Place names of six east central counties of Missouri
Counties: Audrain, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Ralls, and Randolph.
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Place names of five southern border counties of Missouri
Counties: Butler, Carter, Howell, Oregon, and Ripley.
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Scandinavian place-names in Northern Britain as evidence for language contact and interaction
… consists of an examination of various types of place-name formations, as evidence of the linguistic contact and interaction which occurred between incoming Scandinavian speakers and the native population of northern Britain, in light of current theories of language contact. The first chapter …
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Mid Ulster place-names: townland names in selected parishes in South Derry and North Tyrone
This thesis is an analysis of place-names in a number of parishes in Mid-Ulster. The key aim of the research project is to use evidence to work out the original meaning of the names. The thesis also discusses the decline and survival of the Irish language in Co. Derry and Co. Tyrone as well as the …
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The colonial impact of the erasure of Blackfoot Miistakistsi place names in Paahtomahksikimi, Waterton Lakes National Park
… to us. The colonial erasure of Blackfoot names and the imposition of European names by colonizers disrupted that relationship, and our access to practise Itaksiistsimoo’pi (Vision Quest) and fasting. I bring a Blackfoot methodology based on lived experience and the transferring of oral …
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Strengthening the Integration of Traditional Knowledge in Environmental Impact Assessment: An Analysis of Inuit Place Names near Steensby Inlet, NU
… and traditional knowledge to this task. Inuit place names are a form of traditional knowledge that has rarely been leveraged in environmental assessment despite their indication of historical land-use, ecological resources, and areas of cultural value. Through a case study of the Mary River …
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The Germanic toponymicon of Southern Scotland:place-name elements and their contribution to the lexicon and onomasticon
… examination of the contribution of the Germanic place-names of southern Scotland to the onomasticon and lexicon of Britain generally and Scotland specifically. By building a corpus of the Germanic place-names so far identified in the south of Scotland, and interrogating this data in the light of …
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Corpus linguistics for History : the methodology of investigating place-name discourses in digitised nineteenth-century newspapers
… to analysing the discourses surrounding place-names in digitised nineteenth-century newspapers. I single out three approaches to identifying place-names mentioned in large amounts of text without the need for a geo-parser system. The first involves relying on USAS, a semantic tagger, …
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A CASE STUDY IN TOPONYMY: SAMPLING AND CLASSIFYING A TRI-LINGUAL PLACE NAME INVENTORY FOUND IN THE NORTH-CENTRAL STATE OF NEW MEXICO
… has an extensive distribution of geographic names applied to landscape features from documented sources and from living oral tradition. Many of these geographic names originated from three distinct socio-linguistic groups, among which are names in three languages applied to single features. …
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The salience and visibility of toponymic changes in Makhanda & Gqeberha: A social semiotic perspective
… an excessive number of colonial toponyms (place names) can be found across the country. The democratic government of South Africa has taken the somewhat controversial step of correcting these colonial names through the process of renaming places and street names. In this study, I explore …
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The Life and Times of Medieval Drifters: The Social and Environmental Significance of Driftwood in the Medieval Icelandic Culture and Identity, 9th - 13th Centuries
… part of Icelandic culture, seen in early place names, laws, cultural stories, and mythology. This study argues that driftwood, as an aspect of the Icelandic landscape, became a symbol of resilience, representing both life and survival to the early settlers, and becoming a vital part of the …
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The Poetics of Geography in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… detailed journeys through its spaces; we find place names from the mythological to the contemporary, from the esoteric to the commonplace; and we find poetic landscapes loaded with symbolic meaning. My first chapter explores perceptions and representations of space. I argue for a metaliterary …
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Climate change, technology, and toponymy in the cultural landscape of Nunavut
… change. As this landscape transforms, the place-based knowledge of the native Inuit is under threat. According to recent psychological research, societal problems such as youth suicide, stem from the Inuit losing connections with their homeland. This thesis explores the relationship between …
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