Tag: Geographical common words

BARBARA BÁBA, Geographical common words in space and time. 2016.

By Bába, Barbara, , , ,

Geographical common words, as expressions marking places, are of central importance to the lexicon of any language, which is also true of Hungarian, because it is only these elements that can identify a certain type of locations. The research of geographical common words is especially significant in Hungarian, because they belong to that group of…

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BARBARA BÁBA–MAGDOLNA NEMES, Hungarian geographical common words. 2014.

By Bába, Barbara, Nemes, Magdolna, , ,

Geographical appellatives (common words) as phrases denoting places constitute one of the fundamental sets of the Hungarian vocabulary and name system (or of the vocabularies and name systems of any other language), since no other elements are suitable for referring to classes of (geographical) objects and places. Understandably, the analysis of geographical common words has…

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