OPEN ONOMASTICS: CONTEMPORARY TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLISH RESEARCH ON PROPER NAMES Onomastics is traditionally treated as a subdiscipline of linguistics. Despite the close relationship between onomastics and methods research on names derived from linguistics, current in development based other traditions achievements various scientific disciplines has also become popular recent years. G...

The naming of natural features, such as hills, lakes, springs, meadows etc., provides awealth of linguistic information; the study of the names and naming systems is called onomastics. We consider a data set containing all names and locations of about 58,000 lakes in Finland. Using computational techniques, we address two major onomastic themes. First, we address the existence of local dependen...

Onomastic and Legal Terminology in Connection with Personal Names This paper draws attention to Hungarian personal name related terminology differences legal, onomastic everyday usage. Onomastics employs a wider range of technical terms than the legal profession since former focuses exclusively on names, including non-official varieties, while other does not. The reveals cases where same term h...