Size frequency distribution of Japanese place-names

Central Place Theory and City Size Distribution

This paper proposes a theory of city size distribution via a hierarchy approach rather than the popular random growth process. It does so by formalizing central place theory using an equilibrium entry model and specifying the conditions under which city size distribution follows a power law. Central place theory describes the way in which a hierarchical city system with different layers of citi...

The Power of Syntopism: Chinese Poetic Place Names on the Map of Early Japanese Poetry

An Ontology of German Place Names

A dictionary of German toponyms (place names) was first constructed so that their linguistic features could be systematically described, i.e. their morphology and syntactic behaviour. The dictionary’s format is compatible with DELA (Courtois 2004), hence it can be used with Unitex and Intex (see Prolintex for a French equivalent). This software is used to implement local grammars which describe...

Ambiguous Place Names on the Web

Geographical information is achieving an increasing importance in the World Wide Web. Everyday, the number of users looking for geographically constrained information is growing. Map-based services, such as Google or Yahoo Maps provide users with a graphical interface, visualizing results on maps. However, most of the geographical information contained in web documents is represented by means o...

OE and ME cunte in place-names

Despite much discussion of the modern word, mysteries remain, both linguistic and sociological. Is it native OE, or borrowed from ON? Has the modern taboo always existed? I consider that the place-name evidence can contribute to these questions. However, there has not yet been a convenient corpus of all the surviving material. OED cites the street-name Gropecuntelane from Oxford c.1230 as its e...