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Index of personal names [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This index presents a list of personal names that occur in the book The Netherlands Indies and the Great War 1914-1918. The entries are arranged in alphabetical order. In the book, the political and economic developments in the Netherlands Indies between 1914 and 1918 and the domestic and international factors which influenced them are traced using ...
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name

open access: yesNames, 2021
A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America. By KIRSTEN FERMAGLICH. New York: New York University Press. 2018. Pp. v þ 245. $28.00. ISBN: 978-1-4798-6720- 2.
Beth DiNatale Johnson
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Personal names and migration

open access: yesNordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik
This paper seeks to offer a broad examination of themes related to personal names within the context of migration. It gives a survey of how language contact effects the name form and reviews various socio-onomastic perspectives, including name choice ...
Michelle Waldispühl
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A Tihanyi alapítólevél személynevei III.

open access: yesNévtani Értesítő, 2023
Personal names in the Foundation Deed of Tihany Abbey Part 3: Relations between personal names and place names   The 1055 Foundation Deed of Tihany Abbey, a precious linguistic record of the Hungarian language, includes several Hungarian place ...
Rudolf Szentgyörgyi
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Current Trends in Name Giving among Bulgarians: A Study of the Names of Newborns in the Sofia Region [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2017
The article showcases a large-scale study of the modern Bulgarian anthroponymic system conducted by the Applied Onomastics section of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute for the Bulgarian Language (IBL) with the aim of revealing the current ...
Maya Vlahova-Angelova
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Family Nicknames in Pučišća on the Island of Brač

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2010
This paper discusses family nicknames in Pučišća on the island of Brač. Family nicknames, as an additional aspect of identification that developed due to the fact that numerous individuals carried the same family name, are a characteristic of Croatian ...
Domagoj Vidović
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Dawro Personal Names and Naming Practices

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2021
The Dawro, speakers of an Omotic language in Southwest Ethiopia, use personal names both to establish individuals’ linguistic identity and to reflect their culture and language.
Mengistu Dinato Didena
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Translating African Names in Fiction

open access: yesIkala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2009
In this paper, we study the sociocultural and ethno-pragmatic significance of African names as used by the Yoruba and Izon of Nigeria and the Akan of Ghana. From the perspective of linguistic anthropology, we show the non-arbitrary nature of these names
Isaiah Bariki
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