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Ladislav Zgusta
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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Linguistics and of Classics; Director, Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Author of Kleinasiatische Personennamen and others.

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Bar chart showing the 10 most given boy names in the U.S. in the 1880s, with John, William, and James as the top three, and counts for each name.
Name, a word or group of words used to refer to an individual entity (real or imaginary). A name singles out the entity by directly pointing to it, not by specifying it as a member of a class. It is possible to refer to the same entity, for example, a river, in two distinct ways: (1) “The Colorado…
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