Book Launch: Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-names

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FREE EVENT, ALL WELCOME

Join us in celebrating the launch of Glasgow's Gaelic Place-names co-written by Alasdair C. Whyte, Katherine Forsyth, and Simon Taylor.

Book info:

It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow's place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the University of Glasgow, this illustrated guide to Glasgow's Gaelic namescape reveals how place-names are a key to unlocking Glasgow's hidden past and takes the reader on a journey of discovery the length and breadth of this great modern city – from Yoker in the west to Daldowie in the east, via Boclair, Carmunnock and many other places in between. The truth about Glasgow's past, present and future dispels myths and throws up countless surprises about Glasgow's deep Gaelic roots.

Please note: this event will take place in-person and online (Zoom), so be sure to make your attendance clear when selecting your tickets. 

Date and time

Tuesday, October 3 · 5:30 - 7:30pm BST

Location

Boyd Orr Building

University Avenue Glasgow G12 8SP United Kingdom

The Place-Names of Dorset: Unlocking Their Secrets

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About this event

What’s in a name? You can find out, as Dorset History Centre is thrilled to present an afternoon in discussion with Richard Coates (President of the English Place-Name Society) and David Hinton (member of the English Place-Name Society).

The afternoon will reveal the secrets behind some of the common and unusual place names which surround us and explore some of the issues arising from compiling a definitive account of place names. The completion of Dorset's place names survey has taken 40 years, making this a major academic achievement which has created a wonderful resource for fun and learning.

There will also be a selection of historic and beautiful maps from Dorset’s archives on display for visitors to enjoy during the afternoon.

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The afternoon's schedule is:

2.00 A welcome to DHC

2.10 A word from David Mills on the big screen. Tribute to David Mills and his place-names survey by a member of the Council of the English Place-Name Society

2.20 A talk from Richard Coates, President of the English Place-Name Society, University of the West of England: “Treasures and pleasures among Dorset’s place-names”

3.00 Refreshments and a chance to view a selection of maps held at Dorset History Centre

3.30 A talk from David Hinton, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton: “The place-names of Dorset and the shire's archaeology”

4.15 Brief closing remarks

Date and time

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:00 - 16:30 BST

Location

Dorset History Centre

Bridport Road Dorchester DT1 1RP United Kingdom

Die Mainzer Namentagung 2023 "Namen und Politik"

Die Mainzer Namentagung 2023 "Namen und Politik" fand vom 20. bis zum 22. September an der Universität Mainz statt. Barbara Aehnlich und David Brosius hatten die Ehre, den Eröffnungsvortrag mit dem Titel "Vieldiskutierte Benennungsmotive und frequente Fehlinterpretationen: Thüringische Flurnamen mit Bezügen auf das Leben ethnischer Minderheiten" zu halten. Erinnert ihr euch an unseren Aufruf vor einigen Monaten, bei dem wir nach Namen suchten, die auf Juden und/oder Angehörige der Sinti und Roma hinweisen? Ihr habt uns großartig unterstützt und uns 351 (!) Namen zur Verfügung gestellt, die wir zusätzlich zu unserem Archivbestand auswerten konnten. DANKE dafür!

Es war faszinierend zu erarbeiten, dass Flurnamen mit dem Wortbestandteil "Jude" oft direkt auf jüdisches Leben hinweisen, obwohl historische und teils auch moderne volksetymologische Deutungen regelmäßig versuchen, andere Motive hineinzulesen. Ähnlich verhält es sich mit Begriffen wie "Zigeuner" oder "Tatar", die früher auch für andere Personengruppen verwendet wurden, die nicht unbedingt Angehörige der Sinti und Roma waren. Heute sind diese Namen oft mit Geschichten angereichert, die zwar wissenschaftlich nicht haltbar sind, aber stets Stereotype gegenüber Sinti und Roma transportieren. Es ist daher von großer Bedeutung, dass die wissenschaftliche Flurnamenforschung solche Fehl- und Umdeutungen von Namen aufdeckt.

Neben unserem eigenen Vortrag haben wir auch viele andere spannende Präsentationen gehört. Themen wie Siedlungsumbenennungen während des Nationalsozialismus und zweisprachige Ortsschilder in Norddeutschland haben unsere Perspektiven erweitert. Am zweiten Tag beschäftigten wir uns unter anderem mit Fragen der sprachlichen Diskriminierung auf dem Wohnungsmarkt und hörten eine Expertin zum Thema "First name regulation in Denmark". Der dritte Tag war nicht weniger interessant und befasste sich mit Themen wie der Genese des patriarchalen Ehenamenprinzips. Am Ende hatten wir sogar noch Zeit, die größte Stadt Rheinland-Pfalz, das wunderbare Mainz, näher zu erkunden.

Thüringische Flurnamen

60,000 names of forgotten slaves rescued in pencil

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by ÁNGELES LUCAS New Orleans - SEP 12, 2023

“FANNY, 22 years old. And her son DAVID, 3 years old, and her daughter, 5 months old. Sold to Eugénie Dupré for $900.” Written in 3H graphite pencil on an extensive white sheet, Fanny without a surname and with the sonority of an affectionate abbreviation of an English name, was one of the African-Americans enslaved in the United States from 1808 to 1860.

We now know that she and her minimal history existed because of the zeal of 75-year-old calligrapher and researcher Phyllis Goodnow to give visibility to 60,000 slaves who were bought, stolen, sold, and sent to the south of the U.S. during that period through her project History Enslaved / History in Bondage. It has taken her eight years to compile and trace every letter of the onomastic list of each of the individuals recorded on 30 rolls of microfilm she found while researching at the National Archives in Washington D. C., titled “Slave Manifests of Coastwise Vessels Filed at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1807-1860.”

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Do Elephants Have Names?

Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species II (Co-hosted with Project CETI)

Michael Pardo (Colorado State) https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/mic... Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species II Personal names are a universal feature of human language, yet few analogs exist in other species. While dolphins and parrots address conspecifics by imitating the calls of the addressee, human names are arbitrary, i.e., not imitations of the sounds typically made by the name’s owner. We investigated the possibility of name-like calls in wild African elephants, a highly social vocal learner in which addressing individual conspecifics could be beneficial. Using random forest models, we found that calls were specific to individual receivers, even when acoustically divergent from the receiver’s own calls. Elephants differentially responded to playbacks of calls originally addressed to them relative to calls addressed to a different individual, indicating that elephants can determine from a call’s structure if it was addressed to them. Our findings offer the first evidence for arbitrary naming of conspecifics in nonhuman animals.

ONOMASTICS ONLINE | Christian Galinski: Terminology – past, present and future

The lecture series Onomastics Online continued on 21 September 2023 with a presentation given by Ghristian Galinski with the title "Terminology – past, present and future: How to overcome barriers to content interoperability by means of a microcontent approach ". 0:00 - 1:14 Introduction 1:14 - 44:29 Presentation 44:29 - 54:54 Discussion

VI Xornada da Comisión Especializada de Nomes Xeográficos

21 de setembro 2023, 09:30h. Auditorio Neira Vilas, Cidade da Cultura. Os nomes xeográficos son o reflexo do proceso de humanización e caracterización do territorio, así como da evolución da paisaxe ao longo da historia. Os topónimos son o sangue vital da cartografía, pois describen unhas categorías físicas e culturais a múltiples escalas. Como parte fundamental que son do noso patrimonio cultural inmaterial, é necesario conservalos, normalizalos e difundilos usando as novas tecnoloxías co obxectivo de proxectalos cara ao futuro. A creación de recursos dixitais adaptados aos novos retos da sociedade actual permitirannos fomentar o uso da toponimia normalizada e aproveitala para a investigación en diversas disciplinas ou para a xestión do territorio. Este é o camiño que están a seguir, a distintos ritmos, as comunidades autónomas para a creación dos seus respectivos nomenclátores xeográficos, respectando os estándares establecidos polas autoridades competentes, tanto no ámbito lingüístico coma no xeográfico, e cumprindo co modelo de datos interoperables que esixe a directiva INSPIRE da Comunidade Europea.

VI Xornada da Comisión Especializada de Nomes Xeográficos

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O vindeiro 21 de setembro celebrarase na Cidade da Cultura de Galicia a VI Xornada da Comisión Especializada de Nomes Xeográficos, co título Os nomes xeográficos e o mundo dixital.

Os nomes xeográficos son o reflexo do proceso de humanización e caracterización do territorio, así como da evolución da paisaxe ao longo da historia. Os topónimos son o sangue vital da cartografía, pois describen unhas categorías físicas e culturais a múltiples escalas. Como parte fundamental que son do noso patrimonio cultural inmaterial, é necesario conservalos, normalizalos e difundilos usando as novas tecnoloxías co obxectivo de proxectalos cara ao futuro. A creación de recursos dixitais adaptados aos novos retos da sociedade actual permitiranos fomentar o uso da toponimia normalizada e aproveitala para a investigación en diversas disciplinas ou para a xestión do territorio. Este é o camiño que están a seguir, a distintos ritmos, as comunidades autónomas para a creación dos seus respectivos nomenclátores xeográficos, respectando os estándares establecidos polas autoridades competentes, tanto no ámbito lingüístico coma no xeográfico, e cumprindo co modelo de datos interoperables que esixe a directiva INSPIRE da Comunidade Europea.

A Xornada está organizada pola Comisión Especializada de Nombres Xeográficos e o  Instituto Xeográfico Nacional en colaboración coa Xunta de Galicia e a Real Academia Galega (RAG).

Programa

Xornada de mañá

9:00 Recepción de asistentes

9:30 Presentación da Xornada. Autoridades

10:00 “El nuevo visor del Nomenclátor Geográfico Nacional”, por Angélica Castaño Suárez. Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

10:30 “Galicia Nomeada: toponimia colaborativa”, por Vicente Feijoo Ares. Real Academia Galega – Xunta de Galicia

11:00 "Conexión entre Nomenclátor y cartografía oficial. Retos en el tránsito de nombre a rótulo", por Oihana Mitxelena. Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa.

PAUSA CAFÉ

12:00 “Elaboración de la segunda edición de las Directrices toponímicas de uso internacional para editores de mapas, cartas náuticas y otras publicaciones”, por Maite Mollà Villaplana. Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

12:30 "Innovaciones en el Nomenclátor del INE", por Mª Natalia Fojo Diaz. Instituto Nacional de Estadística.

13:00 “La toponimia en mapas antiguos como herramienta para trazar su linaje: A transmisión del topónimo Elcano en la cartografía de los siglos XVI-XVII”, por Marcos F. Pavo López. Instituto Geográfico Nacional.

Xornada de tarde

16:00 “Proceso de normalización de la toponimia geográfica en el Principado de Asturias”, por Juncal Mónica García Velasco. Principado de Asturias.

16:30 “Últimos avances en el Nomenclátor Xeográfico de Andalucía”, por Mª Teresa Garrido Borrego. Instituto de Estadística y Cartografía de Andalucía.

17:00 “El nomenclátor xeográfico de las Illes Balears y el visor de gestión, actualización y consulta”, por Eulàlia Fons Carbonell. Institut Cartogràfic i Geogràfic de les Illes Balears.

17:30 Clausura

Inscrición

Esta Xornada está dirixida ao público en xeral co interese no tratamento dos nomes xeográficos. A asistencia é gratuíta previa inscrición, ata completar a capacidade da sala. O prazo para anotarse remata o 11 de setembro de 2023.

Formulario de inscrición

Retransmisión enstreaming

As persoas que desexen seguir a xornada a distancia poderán conectarse para a emisión en streaming na seguinte ligazón:  https://youtube.com/live/gGKUHBIZRRY?feature=share

Sede

Cidade da Cultura

Monte Gaiás s/n

15707 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña

Transporte público

Contacto

toponimia@academia.gal

Workshop "Non-bare Proper Names. Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers in a Cross-linguistic Perspective"

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Workshop

Cologne, Germany, May 16-17, 2024

Proper names have been widely studied from a philosophical and a linguistic perspective (Frege, 1892; Russell, 1905; Strawson, 1950; Searle, 1958; Donnellan, 1970; Kripke, 1980; Soames, 2002; Elbourne, 2005; Fara, 2015; Matushansky, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015, among others). Over the last decades, they have become an important subject of investigation with respect to the semantics of reference and the syntax of the nominal phrase and, more specifically, to the different types of determiners and modifiers they can combine with, such as indefinite and definite articles (von Heusinger & Wespel, 2007; Gomeshi & Massam, 2009; Bernstein et al., 2019; Camacho, 2019; Saab, 2021; Oggiani & Aguilar-Guevara, forthcoming), honorific particles (Saab, 2021), and adjectives (Sigurdsson, 2006; Bernstein et al., 2019). There is also a growing interest in the cross-linguistic perspective (e.g. Caro Reina, 2020, 2022; Becker, 2021; Caro Reina & Helmbrecht, 2022).

In this context, the research project “Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers in a Cross-linguistic Perspective” aims to contribute to this discussion by bringing together researchers working on proper names with determiners and/or means of modification from a morphological, syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic perspective. The starting event of this research group will be the workshop “Non-Bare Proper Names: Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers in Cross-Linguistic Perspective”. The workshop will take place in Cologne, Germany, in May 2024, and will be followed by later academic events in Mexico and Uruguay.

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Invited Speakers

• Javier Caro Reina (Universität zu Köln)
• Hans Kamp (University of Stuttgart)
• Ora Matushansky (CNRS, Paris)

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Organizers

• Ana Aguilar Guevara (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
• Timo Buchholz (Universität zu Köln)
• Klaus von Heusinger (Universität zu Köln)
• Carolina Oggiani (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
• Julia Pozas Loyo (El Colegio de México)

Call for papers

We invite contributions on proper names with determiners, quantifiers and/or any means of modification, as well as honorifics, diminutives, classifiers, and other affixes, from a morphological, syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic perspective. The main questions this Workshop seeks to answer are:

1. What categories can accompany proper names in natural language?
2. What is the meaning contribution of these categories? How does it combine with that of proper names?
3. What kind of syntax do determined and modified proper names project?

The Workshop will take place at Universität zu Köln, Germany, on May 16-17, 2024.

Abstracts

We invite submissions for 30 min presentations (plus 15 min for discussion) in English. Abstracts should be anonymous and not longer than two pages (Times New Roman 12 pt., single space, 2,4 cm margins). They should be submitted in pdf format to the EasyChair site.

Important dates

• Deadline for submissions: December 11, 2023
• Notification of authors: January 15, 2024
• Workshop: May 16-17, 2024

CfP “Mysterious are the ways of the name: Biblical anthroponyms in secular contexts

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CALL FOR PAPERS

for a topical issue of Onomástica desde América Latina

ODAL invites submissions for the topical issue “Mysterious are the Ways of the Name: Biblical Anthroponyms in Secular Contexts” edited by Eugen Schochenmaier (e-Onomastics, ICOS, Germany).

Introduction:

Biblical anthroponyms, the names of individuals found in Scripture, hold a significant place in religious and cultural histories. These names are often deeply intertwined with religious narratives, moral lessons, and spiritual symbolism. However, the influence of biblical anthroponyms extends beyond theological boundaries, permeating various secular realms. The Journal Onomástica desde América Latina invites scholars from diverse fields to contribute original research exploring the multifaceted presence and implications of biblical anthroponyms in secular contexts.

Scope and Aim:

This special journal issue seeks to examine the intersection of biblical anthroponyms and secular environments, delving into their role, significance, and impact across a wide range of disciplines. While these names originate in religious traditions, they frequently find resonance in literature, art, history, psychology, sociology, linguistics, and more. This issue aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue that uncovers the dynamic ways in which biblical anthroponyms have shaped secular narratives, language, and thought (i.e., Names in the Bibles Project (2022), by Mondonomo).

Especially welcomed (but not limited to) are papers that explore the interaction between biblical anthroponyms and secular contexts under the lens of:

• socioonomastics: the study of names from a sociolinguistic perspective, which examines the use and variety of names through methods that demonstrate the social, cultural, and situational conditions in name usage. As a part of the present topical issue, it should aim to explore variations of names over time and space – why are some Bible-based personal names given and others not, why are some so popular and others fell into oblivion? (e.g. Onomastics between Sacred and Profane (ed. by Oliviu Felecan, 2019)
• geonomastics: the study of distributional patterns of proper names that may clarify how proprial units and their geography are interrelated. It can be about atlases of surnames, maps of hagionyms, repartition of onyms on a given territory (Saintly Placenames in Europe), distributional figures of onomastic cognates (Propensity of the name John in the respective national language), percentage maps of one personal name in different areas (Paul Surname Maps of Ireland), etc.
• deonomastics: the study of common names that are derived from personal names. Such deonymic appellatives, mirroring the lexicalization of proper nouns, imply both semantic and formal shifts. Through this endeavour, our intention is to ascertain whether biblical names continue to contribute to the enrichment of the lexicon in the 21st century (e.g. La lexicalización de los nombres bíblicos en la historia del español (2017) by Consuelo García Gallarín)

The articles must be submitted electronically by ODAL platform for the section Dossier, the call for papers opens in September 2023 and ends in February 2024. The dossier is expected to be published in May 2024.

Link to the Journal: Onomastics from Latin America (unioeste.br)

For more information contact the editor in chief: Marcia.Seide@unioeste.br

XXXI Jornada d'Antroponímia i Toponímia: Els malnoms

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El Gabinet d’Onomàstica de la Universitat de les Illes Balears organitza la XXXI Jornada d’Antroponímia i Toponímia: Els malnoms, que tindrà lloc el mes de desembre de 2023 a Mallorca. L’objectiu d’aquesta jornada és debatre sobre l’estudi dels malnoms, fer balanç de la feina que s’ha fet fins ara al respecte, incentivar la investigació, i treballar sobre nous horitzons i perspectives d’aquesta branca especial de l’onomàstica, transversal de l’antroponímia i la toponímia.

Convocatòria de comunicacions

L’any 1980, amb les publicacions «Reflexions sobre els malnoms de Mallorca, Menorca i Eivissa», d’Enric Moreu-Rey, i «Normes per a l’aplec i l’estudi dels malnoms», de Joan Miralles, començà l’estudi contemporani i acadèmic dels malnoms al nostre país en tots els vessants: des de l’ambiciós projecte d’arreplega i estudi exhaustiu del corpus de malnoms per localitats fins a l’àmbit de l’antropotoponímia, atès que els malnoms són presents en una gran part de la toponímia.

Els investigadors demostren que l’estudi dels malnoms es pot emprendre des d’àmbits varis: escodrinyar les etimologies d’aquelles formes úniques i de vegades arcaïtzants que no trobam en cap altre àmbit de la llengua; evidenciar la productivitat de formes que es repeteixen a la majoria de les localitats; estudiar les migracions a través de la petjada en la toponímia; analitzar la diversitat de tipologies existents, el component social i les motivacions a l’hora de produir-los; els processos de transmissió familiar...

Contingut de les comunicacions

Les comunicacions han de ser inèdites i es valorarà, preferentment, que s’ajustin al tema proposat pel Gabinet d’Onomàstica: «Els malnoms a les illes Balears i Pitiüses». Tot i això, serà benvinguts els estudis sobre malnoms de la resta de territoris dels Països Catalans.

Així mateix, es podran presentar comunicacions de qualsevol altre aspecte de l’onomàstica, com s’ha fet a les jornades passades. Es valoraran, especialment, aquells estudis que enfoquin l’onomàstica des d’una perspectiva interdisciplinària.

Informació necessària

Abans de la Jornada i durant el termini d’inscripció dels ponents, els investigadors han d’enviar al Gabinet d’Onomàstica (<consultes.onomastica@uib.cat>) el títol de la comunicació (o les comunicacions) i un resum, com a màxim, de 200 paraules.

Termini per enviar propostes de comunicació al Gabinet d’Onomàstica

La data límit per rebre les propostes de comunicació és el 3 de novembre de 2023.

Pesquisas onomásticas na pós-graduação brasileira

Is India changing its name to Bharat?

Speculation is rife that the Indian government might want to OFFICIALLY change the country's name to 'Bharat'. The cause of the speculation - an official dinner invite to G20 delegates from the country's President, mentioned 'President of Bharat', instead of 'President of India'.

Programme of the II Congreso TOPONOMASTICON HISPANIAE

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Claves en la investigación toponímica

2, 3 y 4 de octubre de 2023

Miraflores de la Sierra & Alcalá de Henares

UAM & UAH

KENT NAMES CONFERENCE 2023

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Date:       Saturday 18th November 2023

Time:       10.00am - 4.00pm

Venue:     Royal Engineers Museum, Prince Arthur Road, Gillingham, ME7 1UR

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The Place-Names Group of Kent Archaeological Society is delighted to announce its 2023 conference on Kent Names, which will be held at the Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, on 18 November.

In line with previous Kent Names conferences, toponymy (the meaning and origins of names), takes centre stage, with supporting studies of the source materials for name study. There is gentle focus this year on north west Kent, with Paul Cullen speaking on the place-names of the Gillingham area, John Death the Anglo Saxon charter boundary of Meopham, and Nigel Price the Huguenot surnames of the Rochester area. The other papers will range more broadly. Abigail Lloyd introduces her research using GIS to interpret Kentish hill-names. James Lloyd discusses heraldic sources for names. And Linda Taylor considers the famous 1598 map of Kent by Philip Symondson. Finally, in his second paper, Paul will detect some patterns and attempt to solve some puzzles in Kentish surnames. Hopefully family historians, historical geographers and local historians, as well as those interested in toponymy, and anyone interested in Kent’s history and heritage, will enjoy our latest celebration of Kent names!

Tickets are £20 each and more details can be found via this EventBrite link:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kent-names-conference-2023-tickets-706621352487?aff=oddtdtcreator

Sat 18 Nov 2023

10.00am - 4.00pm

Contact email

outreach@kentarchaeology.org

Contact

Mark Bateson

Event Location: Gillingham

Event Type

KAS

Place-Names Group