Volume № 59 (2024)

American Onomastics

 

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Grant Smith

ANTHROPONOMASTICS / ANTHROPONOMASTIQUE / ANTHROPONOMASTIK

Attribuer des prénoms à Santiago de Cuba et à Tlalnepantla de Baz, au Mexique, en 1970 : convergences et divergences dans deux variantes de l’espagnol
Yolanda Guillermina López Franco and Sonia Rosales Novoa 

Categorizing personal names among Jews in the contemporary United States
Sarah Bunin Benor and Alicia B. Chandler 

Cross-cultural universals and differences in American and Russian nicknaming patterns
Anna Tsepkova

“I named myself after her”: Renaming strategies in a community of transgender women of the city of Lima, Peru
Ernesto Cuba

The process of naming hearing individuals belonging to deaf communities using Brazilian Sign Language (Libras)
Gabriele Cristine Rech and Fabíola Sucupira Ferreira Sell

Influence of national cultural industry on the choice of first names in the western region of Paraná in Brazil
Márcia Sipavicius Seide

TOPONOMASTICS / TOPONOMASTIQUE / ORTSNAMENKUNDE

Toponyme in La Gran Sabana/Venezuela als Zeugen indigener Tradition, religiöser Missionstätigkeit und politischer Interessen – zwischen der Nationalsprache Spanisch und der indigenen Sprache Pemon
Julia Kuhn and Rafael Eduardo Matos

A classification of Havana street names 
Adianys Collazo Allen

Research on toponymic nicknames of the states in the USA
Aleksandra V. Urazmetova 

ZOONOMASTICS / ZOONYMIE / ZOONOMASTIK

Zoonymy in Brazilian Sign Language: A semantic-motivational analysis and taxonomic proposal to classify signs given to pets by the deaf 
Alexandre Melo de Sousa                                                    

ERGONOMASTICS / ERGONYMIE / ERGONYMIE

Renaming a baseball legacy: The Cleveland Guardians
Christine De Vinne 

 

NON-THEMED ARTICLES / ARTICLES NON THÉMATIQUES / NICHT THEMENBEZOGENE BEITRÄGE

Prexaspes is the Ionic rendering of the Old Iranian *Para.wakhsh.aspa
Pīrōz Āzādān (Morad Peyravi)

Dictionnaire et atlas : propriétés lexicales et sémantiques des urbanonymes en français
Giuseppe Samo and Francesco-Alessio Ursini

The concept of the international database of onomastic terminology (ONOMTERM)
Iveta Valentová, Milan Harvalík and Artur Gałkowski

 

REVIEW ARTICLES / ARTICLES DE REVUE / ÜBERSICHTSARTIKELN

Nadia-Nicoleta Morărașu & Floriana Popescu, An English-Romanian explanatory dictionary of onomastic phrasemes, Bucharest: Pro Universitaria, 2024, 220 pp., ISBN 978-606-26-1909-1
Oliviu Felecan

When Onomastics faces the Law: A Review of I.M. Nick (ed.), Names, naming, and the Law: Onomastics, identity, power, and policy, New York: Routledge, 2023, 266 pp., ISBN 978-1-032-55642-0
Leo Loveday

 

REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS / REZENSIONEN

Alexandru Ofrim, How the old streets got their names. A cultural history of Bucharest, Louvain-la-Neuve : EME Éditions, 2022, 256 pp., ISBN 978-2-8066-3768-0
Daniela Butnaru

Sergei Basik (ed.), Encountering toponymic geopolitics: Place names as a political instrument in the post-Soviet states, Oxon & New York: Routledge, 2023, 187 pp., ISBN 978-1-032-27487-4
Doğuş Düzgün

Jean-Pierre Chambon, Recherches sur la toponymie de l’arrondissement de Lure (Haute-Saône) : linguistique historique, dialectologie, traces d’histoire, en collaboration avec Daniel Curtit, Alain Guillaume, Jean Hennequin et Louis Jeandel, Strasbourg : ELiPHi, éditions de linguistique et de philologie (Travaux de Linguistique Romane), 2023, 651 pp., ISBN 978-2-37276-067-6
Stéphane Gendron

Thomas Stolz & Julia Nintemann, Special onymic grammar in typological perspective: Cross-linguistic data, recurrent patterns, functional explanations, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2023, 257 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-
133171-3
Corinna Handschuh

Gerry O’Reilly (ed.), Place naming, identities and geography: Critical perspectives in a globalizing and standardizing world, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023, 659 pp., ISBN 978-3-031-21509-4 (print), 978-3-031-21510-0 (eBook), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21510-0
Helen Kerfoot

Chrismi-Rinda Loth (ed.), Standardisation and the wealth of place names: Aspects of a delicate relationship – Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Place Names 2021, Bloemfontein: Sun Media Bloemfontein, 2022, vii + 222 pp., ISBN 978-1-928424-96-3 (print), 978-1-928424-97-0 (online), https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424970
Eventhough Ndlovu

Javier Caro Reina & Johannes Helmbrecht (eds.), Proper names vs. common nouns: Morphosyntactic contrasts in the languages of the world (Studia Typologica 29), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022, 263 pp., ISBN 978-3-11-067247-3
Julia Nintemann

David Boulton, Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia: The place-name evidence, Oxford: Windgather Press, 2023, 240 pp., ISBN 978-1-914427-25-1
David N. Parsons

Stéphane Gendron, De vie à trépas : présence de la mort dans les noms de lieux, Paris : Errance et Picard, 2023, 160 pp., ISBN 978-2-330-18111-6
Gérard Taverdet

Louis Hébert, Théories et méthodes pour l’analyse des noms propres : Onomastique textuelle, Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2022, 354 pp., ISBN 978-2-406-14099-3
Jean-Louis Vaxelaire

 

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