Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 20, 2011.
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
Publication date:
31.5.2012.
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