Original scientific paper

Personal nicknames in the rural environment based on examples from Promina

Ankica Čilaš Šimpraga orcid.org/0000-0001-7655-4139 ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb, Hrvatska

Abstract

The paper presents masculine and feminine personal nicknames based on material collected in Promina, and provides an explanation of the basic sociological characteristics of this Dalmatian rural region. Furthermore, it explains the lexical origin and importance of this category in light of word formation, and presents a semantic and motivational analysis of the material. Moreover, it explains the occurrence of so-called “interchanging names”.

Keywords

Promina; unofficial names; personal nicknames

Hrčak ID:

81916

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/81916

Publication date:

31.5.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

Visits: 11.390 *