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In the modern theory of Terminology, it is claimed that terminology work is descriptive in approach, exploring actual term use in specialized discourse. Terminological units are examined from cognitive, linguistic and socio-communicative points of view. This paper examines the use of terms presented in the "ICOS List of Key Onomastic Terms" in the volumes of the proceedings of the latest ICOS congresses with the help of modern corpus linguistic tools. Based on the text corpora provided in the conference volumes, the present enquiry focuses on features such as the frequency of terms and distributional patterns, performing a collocation analysis and a search for synonyms and definitions with respect to established ICOS key terms. By extracting term candidates from the texts and comparing their features with those of the already accepted onomastic terms, the paper also comments on terms recommended recently for acceptance by the Terminology Group and makes suggestions on adding some further expressions to the next edition of the ICOS key terms list. The paper explains and illustrates through relevant examples how the latest ideas, trends and corpus linguistic applications in Terminology can be adopted in terminology work on onomastic terms, for the benefit of experts in several distinct branches of science in general and of the community of name scholars in particular.

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