Onomastics of the Volga river region

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Onomastika Povolzh`ia

Materialy VIII Konferentsii po Onomastike Povolzh`ia. Volgograd, 8-11 Sentiabria 1998

[ Onomastics of the Volga river region : Papers of the conference on geographic names of the Volga River region]

Ed. by R.Sh. Dzharylgasinova, V.I. Suprun
Moscow: In-t Etnologii i Antropologii RAN, 2001
350 p
pbk. 14 x 20 cm. Printing 200
ISBN: 5201146082
Language: Russian

This volume includes materials of the eighth conference on onomastics (or onomasiology) held in the city of Volgograd in 1998. Onomastics, the study of origins and forms of words and proper names, is an interdisciplinary area at the boundary of linguistics, ethnology, geography, history, and folklore studies. Traditionally this collection includes the following chapters: Anthroponymics; Toponymics; Ethnonymics; Theonymics; Zoonymics; Proper names in folklore and fiction; General issues of onomastics; Archival studies in onomastics. Bibliographical references.

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» Geography and Natural History

» History: General Works and Philosophy of History » Auxiliary Disciplines » Historical Geography & Toponimika

» Language, Dictionaries and Linguistics » Philology, Etymology and History of Language

» Social Sciences » Sociology, Anthropology

» Russian Federation: Regions and Federated Republics » Ural and Volga River Regions

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