Warsaw and Kyiv Lodging Establishment Names of the Early 20th Cent.
Warsaw and Kyiv Lodging Establishment Names of the Early 20th Cent

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a case study in comparative socio-onomastics of the pan-European linguistic-cultural area In analysing the names of Warsaw and Kyiv hotels of the early 20th century and their extralinguistic motivations, the authors show that despite the differences of the languages, national-cultural orientations and popularity of certain orthonyms, the names in question were manifesta-tions of a common European onomastic system in this industry both on the level of individual names and their semantic models As part of the European onomastic system, the names studied here also ref lect the dynamics of this system, such as the expansion of onomastic novelties and their transfor-mations into proper names.

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