Latvian Anthroponymic Desiderata: Diachronic research of unexplored Latvian given names for global integration and open access (LAnDe)

Latvian Anthroponymic Desiderata: Diachronic research of unexplored Latvian given names for global integration and open access (LAnDe) The aim of the project Latvian Anthroponymic Desiderata: diachronic research of unexplored Latvian given names for global integration and open access (LAnDe) (No.  zp-2025/1-0125, project lead Renāte Siliņa-Piņķe) is to bring Latvian personal name material into the international scholarly circle through the study of 13th to 16th century sources that have not been linguistically analysed so far. The plan is (1) to excerpt and systematise given names data from 20 to 25 sources or sets of sources dating from the 13th to 16th century, (2) to carry out a study on the development of Latvian given names during this period on the basis of

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State research programme project “The Latvian Language in Time, Space, and Society (LaTS)”

State research programme project “The Latvian Language in Time, Space, and Society (LaTS)” The goal of the project “The Latvian Language in Time, Space, and Society (LaTS)” (No. VPP-LETONIKA-2025/1-0012, project lead Sanda Rapa) is to strengthen and expand knowledge of Latvian as a dynamic system shaped by its historical development, regional and social diversity, functional variety, and multilingual environment in Latvia and beyond, while simultaneously developing Latvian as a cornerstone of national identity and state security. To achieve this goal, the Latvian language will be studied in six dimensions: sociolinguistics, terminology and translation studies, dialectology and the study of the Latgalian written language, onomastics, the history of the Latvian language, and language acquisition. The project consists of six interrelated sub-projects that together correspond to

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