Names: A Journal of Onomastics Names: A Journal of Onomastics
Biographic Data
| ID | 5963644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Names: A Journal of Onomastics Names: A Journal of Onomastics |
| GIVEN NAMES | Names: A Journal of Onomastics Names: A Journal of |
| FAMILY NAME | Onomastics |
| SIGNATURE | ONOMASTICS N A J O O N A J O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 181 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 181 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Corrigenda for the reviews in 66: 3
Notice of Intent to Digitize Back Issues of Names: A Journal of Onomastics
A Look Back at the American Name Society
A Look Back at the American Name Society is an occasional section of influ- ential articles from this journal. George R. Stewart’s essay on place names provides a classificatory scheme, which includes: (1) descriptive names, (2) possessive names (3) incident names, (4) commemorative names, (5) euphemistic names, (6) manufactured names, (7) shift names, (8) folk etymological names, and (9) mistake names
The American Name Society, Meeting with the Linguistic Society of America Baltimore, Maryland, January 7–10 2010
The American Name Society (ANS), a professional organization devoted to the study of names and their role in society, invites précis and abstracts for papers for its annual meeting to be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) and other allied, professional organizations.Papers in any area of onomastics are appropriate, and a précis of not more than 500 words, along with a 100-word abstract for publication in both the LSA…
Names in the News
Index
The ANS with the Linguistic Society of America Chicago, Illinois, January 3–6, 2008
The American Name Society (ANS), a professional organization devoted to the study of names and their role in society, invites precis and abstracts for papers and program suggestions for its annual meeting to be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), the American Dialect Society (ADS), and other allied, professional organizations.The 2008 meeting will be at The Palmer House, a Hilton hotel, 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago…
Special Topics Issue Of Names: Women's Onomastics September 2007
In Memoriam: William “Bill” Bright, 1928-2006
The American Name Society with the Linguistic Society of America January 4-7, 2007
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Index
The Names Institute
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American Name Society with the Linguistic Society of America
The meetings will take place at the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero
Upcoming events
The Lurline H. Coltharp Collection of Onomastics
Names Style Sheet
This information should be on the cover page and nowhere else. B. In the abstract, characterize and summarize the article. Include such things as the nature of the issues considered, the sources of the data, the methodologies used, and a general summary of the findings. The abstract should be approximately 100-150 words and should be written in the same style and voice as the body of the article. C. Prepare the text of the article and notes using…
Book Notice
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Book Notice
Norman's earlier book, A World of Baby Names (Berkely Perigee, 1996), was an extensive listing of the more common given names found in major world cultures, with their origins and variants, and often interesting bits of historical and cultural information about early bearers of the names.The present book focuses on the evolution of names in the British Isles and the United States, specifically names in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the U…
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Book Notices
Important Notice
Names will mark the golden anniversary of the Society by devoting the December, 2001 issue to a projective and retrospective look at the American Name Society and at onomastic study as it has been and as it is currently practiced.To that end, I call for contributions from ANS members which will illuminate aspects of the past, present, and future of the Society and of onomastics.These may be personal essays, reflecting on the people and events whi…
Book Notice
References Kaganoff, Benzion C. 1977. A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History. New York: Schocken. Lawson, Edwin D. 1991. “Most Common First Names in Israel.” Names 39: 103–24. Sidi, Smadar Shir. 1989. The Complete Book of Hebrew Baby Names. San Francisco: Harper and Row
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The SysteDlatic Study of Personal Nicknames: A Small Step Forward
Short Reviews and Review Notes
A recent Modem Language Association collection of Approaches to Teaching DON QUI-XOTE reminds us of the onomastic richness of that masterpiece and that NAMES has not noticed before Cervantes
Biographical Sketches
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When the heroine of Toni Morrison's second novel, Sula l learns that she knew a lover only by his nickname, Ajax, and not by his real name, Albert Jacks, she muses: "I didn't even know his name.And if I didn't know his name
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Even as the key word in the first scene of King Lear, namely "love," may derive from the Old English "lofian," meaning "to praise,"l so the King's name may also have some basis in Old English. Though "Lear" is usually thought of as Celtic, 2 with a likely analog in the legend of the Irish Lir,3 there may well be resonances of OE lire ("empty"), which then evolved into ME l~re (with the variant form of lear -see OED). The same word in Renaissance …
American Name Society Membership and Subscription Roster 1966
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The ANS regrets the loss of another of its charter members.Guy C
C. S. Forester on Names ofRis Characters
News, Comments, and Queries
JOSEPHSCHNETZ died in Gunzburg, Germany, in
Geographic Names in the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
LE COAST SURVEY was first authorized by Congress in 1807 and began active field surveys in the late 1830s.In 1878 its name was changed to' Caast and Geadetic Survey, with added functians af triangulatian and precise leveling far the entire United States.The survey is naw charged, amang ather duties, with the preparatian and publicatian af nautical and aeranautical charts far all damestic territories af the United States, and with numeraus ather f…
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Duringthe period af farmatian the ANS lost twa af its mast active supparters: Dean Christian Gauss af Prince tan University and Prafessar Randall Mills af the University af Oregan, the farmer at the end, the latter at the beginning af a distinguished career.During its first year af existence the ANS regrets the lass af three af its charter members.j.A. C. Leland, a native af janesville, OhiO', and a member af the Sons af the American Revalutian, …
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Radio Publicity
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Library Members and Subscribers
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Your Name”
The surname Cofer and Coffer (Middle and Modern English forms), Cofre (Old French), KOfer (German), and even Cophinus (Latin) and Koqnvo') (Greek) are derived from the same occupational source or idea, which is keeper of the treasure or treasure box.The English forms go back to the Old English name, Coferer or Cofferer) which 'was a common name in the thirteenth century.This occupation of keeper of the treasure box or treasurer functioned before …
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The Mary Glide Goethe Prize
Roster of Members
Names in Brief
Schmittlein, in his interesting and provocative book, Toponymie lituanienne (Vol. I of Etudes sur la nationalite des Aestii, Baden-Baden, 1948), p. 96, doubts that there are in Lithuanian numerous river names which are simple animal names. In his opinion, such occurrences are rather exceptional, and some of them may be designations of mythological origin. He is right in stating that P. Trost in his article, "Der bloBe Tiername als Gewasserbezeich…
Your Name
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The ANS regrets the loss of another of its charter members.Guy C
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In memoriam. The ANSregrets theloss of two men who are inseparably connected with modern American culture
News, Comments, Queries
in fl1tmoriam.-]amesK. Moffitt died in Piedmont, California, at the age of eighty-nine.He was a man unselfishly interested in all phases of American culture and literary endeavors.The ANS) of which he was a sustaining member since its foundation, together with similar organizations, regrets the loss of a true and generous friend
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