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Mainzer Namentagung
The Mainzer Namentagung is a series of linguistics conferences with a focus on all areas of onomastics Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An ''orthonym'' is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, w ... held annually at University of Mainz. So far, 7 editions of the conference have been carried out. See also * List of linguistics conferences References {{Reflist Linguistics conferences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onomastics
Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names. An ''orthonym'' is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names. It is a popular approach in historical research, where it can be used to identify ethnic minorities within wider populations and for the purpose of prosopography. Etymology ''Onomastics'' originates from the Greek ''onomastikós'' ( grc, ὀνομαστικός, , of or belonging to naming, label=none), itself derived from ''ónoma'' ( grc, ὄνομα, , name, label=none). Branches * Toponymy (or toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study of place names. * Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. * Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction. * Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 students (2018) in about 100 schools and clinics, it is among the largest universities in Germany. Starting on 1 January 2005 the university was reorganized into 11 faculties of study. The university is a member of the German U15, a coalition of fifteen major research-intensive and leading medical universities in Germany. The Johannes Gutenberg University is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Germany. The university is part of the IT-Cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar. The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Goethe University Frankfurt and the Technische Universität Darmstadt together form the Rhine-Main-Universities (RMU). History The first University of Mainz goes back to the Archbishop of Mainz, Prince-elector and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Linguistics Conferences
This is a list of recurring linguistics conferences. Included are also a list of organisations that hold recurring meetings under the same name. By geographical location International *Association for Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon) *Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL) *International Conference on Sociolinguistics *International Congress of Linguists (ICL) *International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) *Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) North America *American Dialect Society (ADS) *Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA) *Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) *Linguistic Society of America (LSA) *North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) *West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) *Western Conference on Linguistics *Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) South America * Associação Brasileira de Lingüística, Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) Europe *Societas Linguistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
