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In Polish onomastic terminology, ojkonym means name of the town, village or other human settlments. Periphrastic expressions arise not only for common words, but also for proper names, including geographical ones. In Polish language exist periphrases of names of continents, regions, states, names of water (hydronyms). The articles discusses the semantics and structure of about 70 periphrases relating...
In differing ways, linguistics and geography each observes that a name's significance is connected to a society. According to lexical theory, a word is arbitrary: Its sound and meaning have no intrinsic link; its function is grammatical. Names are, however, special words. We bestow names based on how they sound or on what they may already have come to represent; names are not arbitrary. In turn, toponyms...
As one of the works from the second half of the XVIII century which bear witness to a lively cultural and civilised period when the most sensitive and capable Sardinian intellectuals were opening their minds to the new European ideas, Flora Sardoa by Michele Antonio Piazza has still not had the honour of being published and even today is to be found within two not easily consulted manuscripts. And...
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