To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: History of personal names.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'History of personal names'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'History of personal names.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Smith-Bannister, Scott. "Names and naming patterns in England, 1538 to 1700." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315015.
Full text
2
Robertson, Bruce G. "Personal names as evidence for Athenian social and political history ca. 507-300 B.C." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0016/NQ53894.pdf.
Full text
3
Henry, Kevin A. "Exploring population structure and migration with surnames : Quebec, 1621-1900." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85167.
Full textAbstract:
This research uses isonymy (same-surname) methods and models to examine the population structure and migratory history of Quebec, Canada. Through a case study using 1765 and 1881 census and marriage records from 1621-1900, I explore the accuracy of sources as well as develop, test and apply different statistical methods, and experiment with mapping techniques that reveal paths and patterns of French Canadian surnames. Each investigation explores and evaluates a particular method. I noted that multivariate methods, including cluster analysis, relevance networks, and correspondence analysis, not traditionally used in surname analysis offer reliable and informative results, and insights into the hierarchical structure of populations not easily gleaned from traditional surname methods. The spatial and temporal components of Quebec surname distributions revealed that groups of names which populate and distinguish certain regions were in place by 1800, and cross-river relatedness became less significant as the population expanded upstream away from the St. Lawrence River. I also found that surnames unique to certain regions remained strongly clustered until the mid-nineteenth century when urbanization and the settlement of new territory led to the fusion of name pools (diversification) in and around urban areas, while at the same time causing losses of names in some rural areas. The marriage records provided evidence, through their measure of random mating, that surnames within different regions in Quebec continually diversified throughout the nineteenth century. Overall, I found surnames to be an informative variable for inferring population relatedness and migratory paths. Because surnames are readily available in a number of sources researchers involved with historical migration research should find that the methods presented in this work will provide a time-saving technique which can overcome the restrictions of spatial and temporal scale an
4
Hagervall, Claes Börje. "Studier över bebyggelsenamn i Västerbottens län." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, 1986. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82592.
Full textAbstract:
The thesis consists of the following papers: (1) Tre ortnamn på Spöl-. (Tre Kulturer. 2. Medlemsbokför Johan Nordlander-sällskapet tillägnad minnet av Roland Otterbjörk 1925-1984. Umeå 1985. ISSN 0281-9546.) (2) Ortnamnen i Västerbottens län. Del 14, Vännäs kommun, A Bebyggelsenamn. Umeå 1986. ISBN 91-86372-10-6. (Övre Norrlands ortnamn. ISSN 0348-7237.) (3) Studier över yngre nybyggesnamn i Västerbottens län, särskilt i Vännäs socken. Umeå 1986. ISBN 91-7174-237-9. (Nordsvenska. 2. Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Umeå universitet. ISSN 0282-7182.) The chief aim of the thesis is to describe and etymologize the habitative names in the parish of Vännäs in the county of Västerbotten, northern Sweden. The material used consists of place-name forms recorded in the local dialects. The material forms the basis of the author's hypotheses concerning sound changes and morphological changes and the original significance of the various place-names. The hypotheses have been tested by confronting them with historical data concerning the settlement of the area, with linguistic material, with parallel place-names and with topographical data. The purpose of the third paper is to draw further conclusions about the naming of the younger settlements (i.e. settlements from the 18th and the 19th centuries) in the county of Västerbotten as a whole. To shed light on this problem a large number of similar younger habitative names in the area have been examined. The main result of this study is that a number of the second elements of these names can be considered topographically non-motivated and suffixlike. Another result is that the interference from the authorities concerning the direct naming of the young settlements is probably insignificant.digitalisering@umu
5
Meimaris, Yiannis E. "Sacred names, saints, martyrs and church officials in the Greek inscriptions and papyri pertaining to the Christian church of Palestine." Athens, Greece : Paris : Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation ; Diffusion De Boccard, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18374549.html.
Full textAbstract:
"Based on the thesis submitted by the author for the degree 'Doctor of Philosophy' to the Senate of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in 1976"--P. viii.Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-275) and indexes.
6
Gumede, Khanyisile Maureen Thembelihle. "A study of traditional Zulu names." Thesis, University of Zululand, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1199.
Full textAbstract:
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for B.A. Honours degree in the Department of African Languages at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 1988.The study deals with Zulu names of people as a prominent culture trait of the Zulus. It is a universal pattern of culture that every newly born child IS given a name to identify his nationality, sex and also his personality from any other human being. Although this is common in all rlatlons, each nation has its own unique concept of dOIng it. For example in western countries names are maintained and used In the family generation, that is why we always hear of Elizabeth 11, George V, King Edward VIII etc. As a matter of fact the Zulus, like other nations, follow their own concept In naming their children. With them every person has a number of different names by which he/she is known at home and In the outside world. These names include the first name (which IS given to him/her at his/her birth or a few days after birth) ,his/her clan name and also other additional names he/she acquires as he/she grows up. These names are all given from a particular point of view and sometimes with a particular purpose In accordance with Zulu culture. These names are a subject of this paper.
7
Dickens, Sybil Maureen. "Western influences on the Zulu system of personal naming." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007158.
Full text
8
Hitchman, Richard Alan. "After Minos : continuity in ancient Cretan personal names." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443768.
Full text
9
Finnveden, Gustav. "Finding case through personal names in parallel texts." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-174831.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the ‘richness’ of the marking on personal names is an adequate indirect measure of a language’s case usage. The method uses parallel texts to identify, and group by lemma, names in over a thousand languages. These groupings are compared with data for case usage from a typological database for those languages for which it is available. This material is then used to test a method for assessing whether a language uses case or not. Results indicate that the maximum number of word types a proprial lemma is attested with in a text is a useful tool for inferring case usage. However, it only yielded clear results for a subset of the languages tested. It was not particularly useful for inferring the absence of case usage. Estimation of number of case categories was also performed. An entropy measure based on word types that a personal name lemma is attested with and the occurrences of these word types was used. It was found to be a fair indicator of number of case categories for languages, if somewhat inaccurate. Markings on languages which had no case were investigated. They were found to be of several types: pragmatic markers, non-case grammatical markers and case-like markers. Two languages with few markings on personal names and with case were investigated. They were found to not use any case marking on their personal names, but still use such markers on common nouns. This contrasts with a tentative generalization that this study is based on: ‘No languages have case marking exclusively in the domain of [personal names] or [common nouns].’ (Handschuh, 2017).Denna studies syfte är att utvärdera om ’formrikedomen’ hos personnamnslexem är ett fungerande indirekt sätt att undersöka språks kasussystem. Parallella texter användes för att namnen hitta personnamn och gruppera dem efter lexem i över ett tusen språk. För den delmängd av språken där data om deras kasussystem fanns tillgänglig så jämfördes denna med grupperingarna. Resultaten indikerar att det maximala antalet ordformstyper som ett namnlemma observerades i är ett användbart verktyg för att hitta språk som använder kasus, men bara för en delmängd av testade språk. Det var däremot sämre på att hitta språk som inte använder kasus. En entropiuppskattning som var baserat på antalet ordformstyper ett personnamnslemma hittades med och antalet förekomster av dessa ordformstyper användes. Det var en okej indikator för antalet kasuskategorier, dock med något bristande träffsäkerhet. Personnamnsmarkeringar på språk utan kasus undersöktes. De funna typerna av markeringar var pragmatiska, kasuslika, och grammatiska icke-kasus. Två språk med kasus, men med få personnamns, undersöktes. De använder inte kasusmarkering på personnamn, men på sina substantiv, vilket bröt mot en hypotetisk generalisering som denna studie baserades på: Att inga språk har kasusmarkeringar endast på personnamn eller endast på substantiv.
10
Stüber, Karin. "Effects of Language Contact on Roman and Gaulish Personal Names." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1921/.
Full textAbstract:
Extract:
[...]The Roman conquest of what was to become the province of Gallia Narbonensis
in the second and then of the whole of Transalpine Gaul in the first century
B.C. led to the incorporation into the Roman empire of a large part of the territory in which Gaulish was then spoken.1 In consequence, the vernacular rapidly lost its footing at least in public life and was soon replaced by Latin, the language of the new masters, which enjoyed higher prestige (cf. e.g. Meid 1980: 7-8). On the other hand, Gaulish continued to be written for some three centuries and was probably used in speech even longer, especially in rural areas. We must therefore posit a prolonged period of bilingualism. The effects of this situation on the Latin spoken in the provinces of Gaul seem to have been rather limited. A number of lexical items, mostly from the field of everyday life, and some phonetic characteristics are the sole testimonies of a Gaulish substratum in the variety of Latin that was later to develop into the Romance dialects of France (cf. Meid 1980: 38, fn. 77). [...]
11
Carson, Derek R. "Recognising faces and names : factors affecting access to personal information." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244610.
Full text
12
Wmffre, I. L. "Language and history in Cardiganshire place-names." Thesis, Swansea University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.636679.
Full textAbstract:
The thesis concerns itself with the phonetic realisations of Welsh place-names and is based on a large corpus of Welsh place-names collected in the county of Cardiganshire/Ceredigion (Wales, UK), with extensive references to the pronunciation of Welsh place-names outside the county. After discussing the varying conventions adopted by Welsh phoneticians of the past century and a half, improvements in International Phonetic Association notation for Welsh are suggested. The body of the thesis deals with the main features that characterise the pronunciation of Welsh place-names. Since place-names are anchored both in space and time the study of place-name forms give a dynamic picture of the evolution of language. Some new conclusions on the evolution of the Welsh language are advanced, with suggestions as to the motivation behind these changes. It establishes the connection between the Welsh of the Medieval period and the present-day dialects, and complements K.H. Jackson's Language and History in Early Modern Britain (1953) and J. Morris-Jones' A Welsh Grammar (1913), neither of which dealt methodically with the development of Welsh after the Medieval period. The emphasis on place-names rather than literary texts gives a different - I believe more reliable - standpoint from which to chart phonetic developments in language. The methodical description given to attested phonetic developments in Welsh place-names should constitute a useful tool for toponymists to elucidate Welsh place-names which otherwise seem opaque. By demonstrating the underlying patterns of phonetic development in Welsh the study hopes to dispel the notion that the disconcerting variety of place-name forms are mere dialectisms, localisms, or even corruptions. Included is the corpus of place-names which contains some 15,000 headworks. Each headword is followed by a location by grid-reference, often by a notation of pronunciation phonetic script, by historical forms, and often by a discussion of etymologies.
13
Wood, Mark Steven. "Bernician narratives : place-names, archaeology and history." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/794.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis concerns Bernicia and the transition from a Roman-dominated frontier zone at the beginning of the 5th century to an Anglian kingdom by the early 7th century. This is a period of great change and complexity where the current state of knowledge is limited and unsatisfactory. There is considerable scope for new research to contribute towards knowledge and understanding of this difficult area of transition. To achieve this aim, an interdisciplinary approach is adopted here that maximises existing evidential sources but focuses particularly on place-names, something that has not been done before.
14
Anderson, Steven. "A linguistic and exegetical analysis of the personal names in Genesis 4-5." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p014-0142.
Full text
15
Koopman, Adrian. "The social and literary aspects of Zulu personal names / Adrian Koopman." Thesis, University of Natal, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1006.
Full textAbstract:
This work, on the "Social and Literary Aspects of Zulu Personal Names", may be divided into three sections:
Firstly, A Comparative Analysis where both the concept and use of Zulu names are compared to those of other societies, particularly the black societies of Africa. Emphasis is given to use of names in witchcraft, name-avoidance, and the underlying reasons for name-giving in such societies.
Secondly, Zulu Personal Names: a series of interviews provide data on:
a) the social reasons for the giving of personal names (a major part of this thesis);
b) various forms of name-avoidance, including use of kinship terms, clan names, and personal praises (and for the latter, a fifteen page analysis of the content and style of originally-collected praises);
c) An analysis of an original collection of dog- and ox-names, with reference to comparative material.
Thirdly, The Literary Aspect of Zulu Personal Names:
a) An analysis of the concept "praise" - from personal names to the praise-poems of the Zulu kings;
b) An analysis of the literary concepts expressed in Zulu personal names, suggesting that 'the oral literary tradition is alive in every name-giving parent';
c) An analysis of the use of names, of various kinds, in both Zulu and Southern-Bantu praise-poetry.Thesis (MA)--University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1986.
16
CAMARA, SERGIO ANTONIO. "NIETZSCHE OR ALL THE NAMES IN THE HISTORY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=6682@1.
Full textAbstract:
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOEsta tese procura explorar a experiência da subjetividade à luz das interpretações de Nietzsche sobre a história. O texto está desenvolvido em três partes. A primeira parte trata do papel do indivíduo no pensamento do jovem Nietzsche. A segunda propõe uma aproximação com a sua crítica da cultura por meio de uma leitura de Goethe e Dostoievski. A questão que orienta a terceira parte é baseada na sua autobiografia, Ecce homo, compreendida como uma atitude radical com relação à experiência da subjetividade.
This thesis intends to explore the experience of subjectivity in the light of Nietzsche's interpretations about history. The text is developed in three parts. The first one is about the role of individual in Nietzsche's early thought. The second part proposes an approach to his critique of culture through a reading of Goethe and Dostoievski. The question that guides the third part is based on his autobiography, Ecce homo, as a radical attitude toward the experience of subjectivity.
17
Di, Vito Roberto A. "Studies in third millennium Sumerian and Akkadian personal names : the designation and conception of the personal god /." Roma : Pontificio istituto biblico, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35587004n.
Full text
18
Sandström, Raija. "Finska och icke-finska tillnamn i Nedertorneås kyrkböcker på 1800-talet." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Litteraturvetenskap och nordiska språk, 1985. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-65863.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between Finnish and non-Finnish by-names in the church registers of Nedertorneå in the nineteenth century. The investigation shows that the by-names are rather heterogeneous in character and a portion of them consists of elements from different languages. The by-names are divided into Finnish, non-Finnish and parental names, i.e. patronymics and metro-nymics. In order to study the development within the by-name stock in the rural communities of Nedertorneå and in the town of Haparanda, the numbers of Finnish and non-Finnish by-names and of parental names (including comibnations with these bynames), found within the population over the age of 20, are calculated at approximately 20-year intervals during the period 1825-1886. The investigation shows that the by-name stock in Nedertorneå is far more stable than in Haparanda. Individual changes of by-name from one selected year to the next are also taken up, together with certain causes and their possible effect on the changes in the byname stock for the population. By-name changes seem to be more common in Nedertorneå than in Haparanda. However, no real tendencies towards Swedicized forms emerge before the 1890s and the name changes tend rather to have social causes. Finally, an attempt is made to relate the number of Finnish and non-Finnish bynames (including combinations with these by-names) to certain population figures for men and women for the different selected years. The instability in Haparanda's byname stock depends on the faster population growth in the town. The value of various church registers for investigating by-names in the nineteenth century is also discussed.digitalisering@umu
19
Mellet, Jean-François. "Le régime contemporain de l'attribution et du changement de nom au Québec : le "grand bond en evant" d'une institution de droit civil?" Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31171.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis contains a study of the legal rules governing the transmission and change of the surname in Quebec civil law. It undertakes to shed light, by means of a psychoanalytical approach, on the regime for the attribution and change of surname, notably on law reform initiatives in the Province since the onset of the 80s. Contemporary norms in Quebec in respect of the name depart from the classical features of the civilian tradition in that the role played by human will appear indeed to be preponderant in Quebec, be it as to assignment or change of name. This characteristic is likely to affect the normal functioning of the naming process by turning it into a battlefield upon which unresolved incestuous and narcissic tendencies are at play. Whilst the naming scene is in process of privatisation, state actors remain however principally as sanction takers toward parents.
20
Phillips, Kenneth Nathan. "Correlating personal information between DOD411, LINKEDIN, FACEBOOK, and MYSPACE with uncommon names." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/5141.
Full textAbstract:
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedIt is generally easier to disambiguate people with uncommon names than people with common names; in the extreme case a name can be so uncommon that it is used by only a single person on the planet, and no disambiguation is necessary. This thesis explores the use of uncommon names to correlate identity records stored in DoD411 with user profile pages stored on three popular social network sites: LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace. After grounding the approach in theory, a working correlation system is presented. We then statistically sample the results of the correlation to infer statistics about the use of social network sites by DoD personnel. Among the results that we present are the percentage of DoD personnel that have Facebook pages; the ready availability of information about DoD families from information that DoD personnel have voluntarily released on social network sites; and the availability of information related to specific military operations and unit deployments provided by DoD members and their associates on social network sites. We conclude with a brief analysis of the privacy and policy implications of this work.
21
Cane, Meredith. "Personal names of men in Wales, Cornwall and Brittany 400-1400 AD." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565952.
Full textAbstract:
The thesis deals with the men's names found in selected Welsh, Cornish and Breton sources between 400 and 1400AD. The selected sources for the three areas are as follows: for Wales, Welsh Genealogies and Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts, edited by Peter Bartrum; the published Rolls of the 1292 Lay Subsidy; the Black Book ofSt. Davids, 1326; the Dyffryn Clwyd Court Rolls 1292-1 422; the Book of Llandaf, and the Marginalia in the Lichfield Gospels. For Cornwall the source is the Bodmin Manumissions, and for Brittany the sources are: the cartularies of Redon, Quimperle, Landevennec, and Quimper. For all three countries the inscriptions are discussed. The Welsh section is divided into pre- and post-I JOO periods; rankings are provided for the names in the post-II 00 sources and the results from the different sources are compared. This provides information regarding the comparative popularity of names in use in Wales 1100-1400. The process of Anglicisation in Wales can be measured in the use of borrowed names. The contemporary records are compared with Welsh Genealogies to assess the reliability with which names are recorded in WG. The geographical distribution of the names is also considered. The pre-II 00 section compares first the names and constituent elements in WG and the Book of Llandaf, and then compares the names and elements in these sources to those in the Lichfield Gospels Marginalia and the inscriptions. The names and elements found in the Breton and Cornish names are compared both with the Welsh evidence and with each other. The conclusion details the elements used in men's names in the three different areas, and shows which are held in common by two or more ofthe three areas, and which are exclusive to one area.
22
Döttinger, Ina. "Personal names in Elis 800 BC to 300 AD : forms and functions of Elean names in the context of Greek onomastics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.423342.
Full text
23
Cox, Richard Anthony Victor. "Place-names of the Carloway Registery, Isle of Lewis." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278420.
Full text
24
Mateos, Pablo. "An ontology of ethnicity based upon personal names : with implications for neighbourhood profiling." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/16145/.
Full textAbstract:
Understanding of the nature and detailed composition of ethnic groups remains key to a vast swathe of social science and human natural science. Yet ethnic origin is not easy to define, much less measure, and ascribing ethnic origins is one of the most contested and unstable research concepts of the last decade - not only in the social sciences, but also in human biology and medicine. As a result, much research remains hamstrung by the quality and availability of ethnicity classifications, constraining the meaningful subdivision of populations. This PhD thesis develops an alternative ontology of ethnicity, using personal names to ascribe population ethnicity, at very fine geographical levels, and using a very detailed typology of ethnic groups optimised for the UK population. The outcome is an improved methodology for classifying population registers, as well as small areas, into cultural, ethnic and linguistic groups (CEL). This in turn makes possible the creation of much more detailed, frequently updatable representations of the ethnic kaleidoscope of UK cities, and can be further applied to other countries. The thesis includes a review of the literature on ethnicity measurement and name analysis, and their applications in ethnic inequalities and geographical research. It presents the development of the new name to ethnicity classification methodology using both a heuristic and an automated and integrated approach. It is based on the UK Electoral Register as well as several health registers in London. Furthermore, a validation of the proposed name-based classification using different datasets is offered, as well as examples of applications in profiling neighbourhoods by ethnicity, in particular the measurement of residential segregation in London. The main study area is London, UK.
25
Lea, Melissa Ann. "Evidence for a Face-Name Relationship." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1122490812.
Full text
26
Elitzur, Yoel. "Ancient place names in the Holy Land preservation and history /." Jerusalem : Winona Lake, Indiana : the Hebrew University Magnes Press ; Eisenbrauns, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39200608c.
Full textAbstract:
Basé sur la thèse (Ph.D.) de l'auteur (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, 1993), dont le titre est : Shemot meḳomot ʻatiḳim she-nishtamru befi ha-ʻArvim ba-arets.Bibliogr. p. [388]-409. Index.
27
Leibring, Katharina. "The new Personal Names Act in Sweden: some possible consequences for the name usage." Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung, 2017. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A31771.
Full textAbstract:
Das neue Personennamengesetz in Schweden – einige mögliche Konsequenzen für den Namengebrauch. Der Ausgangspunkt des Beitrages ist die ambivalente Relation zwischen einer relativ strikten Namengesetzgebung und den offiziellen Aufforderungen zur Namensänderung, die seit der ersten Namenverordnung im Jahre 1901 in Schweden vorliegen. Es werden im Beitrag einige problematische Bereiche des neuen Personennamengesetzes vom 01.07.2017 aufgegriffen, unter anderem wie gut das Gesetz an die multilinguale Gesellschaft des heutigen Schwedens angepasst ist und wie die beiden Möglichkeiten, Doppelnamen als Familienname zu benutzen und bei einer Namensänderung von den gewöhnlichsten Familiennamen frei wählen zu dürfen, auf den künftigen Familiennamenbestand einwirken wird.
28
Mokhathi-Mbhele, Masechaba Mahloli M. L. "Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach." Thesis, University of Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3348.
Full textAbstract:
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis study sought to examine independent clause Sesotho personal names as authentic social discourse using the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) theory. It sought to analyze their structure and map them to social functions to demonstrate that they are enacted messages in socio-cultural context of Basotho. It used a form-meaning approach to interpret Sesotho names in socio-cultural contexts of use (cf. Halliday 1994, 2001, Eggins, 1996, 2004 and Martin & Rose 2007) as an alternative to the current formalist approach to onomastica interpretation. The SFL analysis was compared and contrasted mainly with the formalist syntactic specific and semantic specific analyses currently in use by Guma, Sesotho Academy and subsequent authors of Sesotho grammar and other linguists. The purpose of displaying these names as texts in social context enfolded the intent to reflect a systemic interface of lexico-grammar and social activity. The study used the clause-text-culture paradigm to explore Sesotho names as texts or semantic units. The idea was to access their ‘meanings beyond the clause’ (Martin & Rose 2007). Data was collected from national examinations pass lists, admission and employment roll lists from Public, Private, Tertiary, Orphanage institutions. Other data was identified in Telephone directories and Media. The purely linguistic lexico-grammatic analysis of the structure of names was supplemented by interview data from real interpretations from families, owners and senior citizens who have social and cultural knowledge of the meanings of some names. The study has established that Sesotho personal names can present as an independent clause feature. Sesotho personal names can also be described as lexico-grammatical properties and are meaningful in social contexts. They are used to exchange information as statements, demands and commands, and as questions and as exclamations. This means that these names can be categorized according to Halliday’s Mood types which make them function as declaratives, imperatives, interrogatives and exclamatives depending on the awarder’s evaluation. The study also finds that in negotiating attitudes, modality is highly incorporated. The study concludes that Sesotho names conform to the logical structures of the nominal group and the verbal group and these groups reciprocate in use. The verbal group is the core constituent in these names and it serves as a foundation for the nominal and verbal groups particularly because they function as reciprocating propositions. This includes the names with the sub-modification features. This extends the formalist description of Sesotho independent clause in that the identified sub-modifications which are opague and taken for granted by formalist analysts of Sesotho, are explicated as essential elements embedded in the formmeaning relation in SFL. The main contribution is that this is the only study on SFL and onomastica. There is no study that has been conducted using SFL to describe African names. It presents that Sesotho personal names are texts that have been negotiated in socio-cultural contexts. It provides a major departure from most studies that have used the Chomskian formulations or other sociolinguistic theories to describe the naming systems. It displays the art and importance of language use based on experience and culture in the naming system. The study also contributes to fields such as education, history, and others. Lastly, the study has established a new relation of onomastica and SFL theory and onomastica can now be added to the areas “being recognized as providing a very useful descriptive and interpretive framework for viewing language as a strategic, meaning-making resource.” (Eggins 1996:1).
29
Meldgaard, Eva Villarsen. "Studier i københavnske fornavne 1650-1950." København : Reitzel, 1990. http://books.google.com/books?id=Sl1mAAAAMAAJ.
Full text
30
Pei, Kong-ngai. "Fictional characters and their names a defense of the fact theory /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/b4020389x.
Full text
31
Pei, Kong-ngai, and 貝剛毅. "Fictional characters and their names: a defense of the fact theory." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4020389X.
Full text
32
Mphela, Kgabo Lawrance. "An analysis of personal naming in the Moletji area of the Limpopo area : an onomastic approach." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/636.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M.A.) --University of Limpopo, 2010The aim of this research is to analyse personal naming pertaining to the Bapedi of Moletjie, Limpopo Province. The study has indicated that personal naming is regarded as a very serious matter among the Bapedi of Moletjie; and is in most instances influenced by the context that prevails during the birth of children. Thus, names are given to children taking into account issues such as status, marital wealth, health, biological and social relationships, nature, and the environment. The study concludes by indicating that naming is part and parcel of human existence and is thus going to be with us forever.
33
Nguyen, Viet Khoa. "A cross-cultural appraoch to personal naming : given names in the systems of Vietnamese and English." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2479/.
Full textAbstract:
Personal names form one of the most important sections in the system of proper names that are traditionally studied within the field of onomastics. Personal names contain history, tradition, culture as well as all characteristic features of each ethnic community. The general aim of this research project is to have a cross-cultural approach to personal naming based on the systems of Vietnamese and English. Due to the broad scope of the topic of personal names, my research focuses on given names only. First of all, to establish a theoretical background, I dwell on onomastic problems with the focus on the semantic characterisation of proper names, and cultural issues in the study of personal names. I then argue that the views on meaning of names espoused by the Millian and Fregean schools can be reconciled, and that as a cultural universal, names convey both denotational and connotational contents but the content of names can only be determined in each specific language community based on clarification of traditional and cultural values embodied in naming process. Next, the thesis approaches Vietnamese and English given names by reviewing their historical and linguistic characteristics and then classifying them into relevant groups and subgroups. The main purpose of these taxonomies is to bring out the topological characteristics of Vietnamese and English given names as well as the naming trends and forces that have formed the two cultures over the past centuries. Finally, I present a comparison and contrast of Vietnamese and English given names covering all the aspects on the basis of which I institutionalise the theoretical reconciliation of Vietnamese and English personal naming systems, and establish that a reconciliation of the two naming systems is possible within a single overarching framework for their theoretical discussion.
34
Dāraquṭnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar Ibn ʻAbd al-Qādir Muwaffaq ibn ʻAbd Allāh. "al-Muʼtalif wa-al-mukhtalif." Bayrūt, Lubnān : Dār al-Gharb al-Islāmī, 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19226313.html.
Full text
35
Millspaugh, Jennifer Diane Anderson Karen Ann. "Nontraditional name changes for men attitudes of men and women /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-6074.
Full text
36
Malungani, M. M. "Nxopaxopo wa swivangelo swa mavito yo duvulela lama thyiweke van'wamapursi lava kumekaka eka nambu wa ritavinkulu." University of Limpopo, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1796.
Full textAbstract:
Thesis (M. A. (African Languages)) --University of Limpopo, 2014This study analyse Nicknames Given to farm owners along the Great Letaba River .The study indicates that names are some of the most important things in people’s lives. It has been indicated that naming cannot be taken for granted as a name serves as an important identity feature.
37
Martinez, Cadenas Conrado. "Y chromosome haplotypes and Spanish surnames." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.559800.
Full textAbstract:
In most societies, surnames are passed down from fathers to sons, just like the Y chromosome. It follows that, theoretically, men sharing the same surnames would also be expected to share related Y chromosomes. Previous investigations have explored such relationships but most data has been collected so far only from the British Isles. In order to provide additional in sights into the con-elation between surnames and Y chromosomes, this study focuses on the Spanish population and investigates Y chromosome SNP/STR variation by analysing a total of 1,766 DNA samples from unrelated Spanish male volunteers belonging to 37 surnames and 355 controls. The results suggest that the degree of coancestry within surnames is highly dependent on surname frequency. Within-surname genetic variation, as measured by different statistics, con-elates well with surname frequency, though a few exceptions are found. In addition, geographic distance between the individuals' place of origin influences Significantly the con-elation between Y chromosome and surnames: men with the same surname tend to have more similar Y chromosomes if their paternal grandfathers were born geographically close to each other. Therefore, it seems that Y chromosome coancestry within surnames is as much about surname frequency as it is about geographical proximity.
38
Watson, Angus. "Place-names, land and lordship in the medieval earldom of Strathearn." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11331.
Full textAbstract:
The first aim of this thesis is to present a comprehensive toponymic listing and analysis for six parishes of Western Strathearn, and this is done in Part One where approximately 2500 place-names are considered. The medieval parishes of BQR, COM, TEX, MUT, MZX and MXZ form a continuous, largely upland, area, topographically distinct from the Strathearn parishes to the east, and with the exception of Innerpeffray (part of MXZ, see esp. Part Two, Appendix 1b) somewhat less affected, in the 12c to 14c at least, by inward migration of Anglo-Norman and other non-Gaelic groups or individuals. Thus we might expect this western area to be the most conservative part of an earldom that Cynthia Neville has characterised as conservative and insular as late as 13c when compared to other major Scottish earldoms and lordships (Neville 1983, eg vol i, 156, Neville 2000, 76). The core lands of the more easterly medieval parish of FOW were subjected to the same comprehensive toponymic analysis. Though that toponymic material could not be included for reasons of space, it has contributed, along with the material from the six parishes covered in the gazetteers below, to the second main aspect of the thesis, the discussion of lordship and land organisation in Part Two. In Part Two will also be found an introduction to the earldom of Strathearn and a discussion of a number of aspects of its history, as well as appendices giving additional information relevant to the topics discussed in the body of the thesis. The parish unit was chosen as the basis for the organisation of this thesis since John Rogers (Rogers 1992, esp. 125-7) has shown the fundamental link between the form of the ecclesiastical parishes, whose creation was complete by 12c, and pre-existing units of land usually referred to as multiple estates, a multiple estate being a group of individual estates, not necessarily contiguous, organised and operated as a coherent social, tenurial and economic unit. As Rogers puts it, multiple estates were essentially units of lordship, taking the form of a principal settlement or caput with a number of dependent settlements. They contained within their bounds all the resources required to support their economies and to produce the necessary renders. Accordingly they were arranged in the landscape to exploit those resources, a process which often produced irregular geographical forms, including areas detached from the main body of the estate. This process frequently led to a specialisation of function, such as the management of pasture, amongst the component settlements. Jones (1976) discusses the multiple estate in the context of the early British Isles, Dodgshon (1981, esp. 58ff) in a Scottish context. The latter writer says (op. cit., 58) that in their variety of scale, multiple estates have often been likened to a parish, though some were undoubtedly larger, adding that lordship was exercised over them by a tribal chief, a king or a feudal baron. Many of these characteristics will be found relevant to the discussion of land organisation and lordship in Part Two. In our present state of knowledge, then, the medieval parishes are the best representation we have of the patterns of land organisation in Strathearn as they may have been in the time of the late Pictish and early Scottish kingdoms. A practical demonstration of the relevance of parish boundaries lies in the fact that it is rare indeed to find a settlement place-name whose area of reference straddles the boundary of a medieval parish. It is overwhelmingly within the context of the original parish that the place-names of an area have coherence and are most likely to give up their secrets.
39
McNiven, Peter Edward. "Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in medieval Menteith." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2685/.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis illustrates that place-names are an essential resource for our understanding of Scottish medieval rural society, with a particular emphasis on Menteith. Place-names are an under-utilised resource in historical studies, and yet have much to inform the historian or archaeologist of how people used and viewed the medieval landscape. We know a great deal of the upper echelons of Scottish medieval society, especially the politics, battles, and lives of significant figures, such as various kings and great barons. However, we know next to nothing of the people from whom the nobility derived their power. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part 1 begins by defining the extent and geography of the medieval earldom of Menteith. The source material is analysed, highlighting the advantages and pitfalls of different sources that can be used for place-name studies. The different languages spoken in Menteith in the Middle Ages, ranging from P-Celtic to Scottish Gaelic to Scots, can be seen in the onomastic evidence. A crucial question that is explored, if not fully answered, is ‘what P-Celtic language was spoken in Menteith: British or Pictish?’. This is followed by an exploration of what we know of the Gaelic language in Menteith. Documents and place-names allow us to pinpoint the beginnings of the change from Gaelic to Scots as the naming language in the area to the later 15th C. A brief survey of the historical background shows the influence the earls of Menteith and other nobles may have had on the languages of the earldom. The final two chapters of Part 1 look at the issue of using place-names as a historical resource; Chapter 5 explores secular activities, such as hunting and agriculture. Chapter 6 is a case study examining how place-names can inform us of the medieval church. Part 2 is a survey of the place-names of the six parishes that consisted of the medieval earldom of Mentieth, including early forms and analysis of the names.
40
McKay, Patrick. "The names of the parishes and townlands of the baronies of Upper and Lower Toome, Co.Antrim." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304652.
Full text
41
Stewart, Victoria Caterina. "Situational or Personal: Interest in American History." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1271434513.
Full text
42
Keith, Darren E. (Darren Edward) 1967. "Inuit place names and land-use history on the Harvaqtuuq (Kazan River), Nunavut Territory." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30180.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis classifies Inuit place names and analyses their meanings to reveal Harvaqtuurmiut land-use history on the Harvaqtuuq [Kazan River], Nunavut Territory. The author collected previously unrecorded toponyms from the territory of this Caribou Inuit society, the Harvaqtuuq [Kazan River], and corroborated the data of earlier researchers. The Harvaqtuuq landscape was organized from foci of subsistence activities by application of Inuktitut geographical terminology and concepts. These foci moved over time and betray changing land-use patterns. The Harvaqtuuq was a frontier for Inuit, due to the need to depend on caribou, and due to the conflict engendered by overlapping Dene occupation. The presence of anthroponyms, and the paucity of pan-Inuit myths in the landscape allow for the speculative interpretation that the names support current theories of a recent arrival of Inuit to the Harvaqtuuq .
43
Keith, Darren. "Inuit place names and land-use history on the Harvaqtuuq [Kazan River], Nunavut Territory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0032/MQ64162.pdf.
Full text
44
Chan, Hoi-wuen Katherine, and 陳凱媛. "Consciousness of language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B32020491.
Full text
45
Gould, Graham Edward. "The Desert Fathers on personal relationships." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/250936.
Full text
46
Tribe, Anthony Henry Fead. "The names of wisdom : a critical edition and annotated translation of chapters 1-5 of Vilasavajra's commentary on the Namasamgiti, with introduction and textual notes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:29da9a3b-ab9a-4cb4-afea-dd3160be3d3f.
Full textAbstract:
The Nāmamantrārthāvalokinī ('An Explanation of the Meaning of the Namemantras') is an early, and major, commentary on the Nāmasaṃgīti ('The Chanting of Names'). Written by the eighth century Indian ācārya Vilāsavajra, it survives in the original Sanskrit and in Tibetan translation. The Nāmasamgīti enumerates the 'Names' of Mañjuśrī, the Mahayana figure embodying wisdom, and it exerted a strong influence on liturgy, ritual and meditation in the later phase of Buddhism in India (750-1200 CE). Vilāsavajra's commentary is written from a Yogācāra perspective and interprets the 'Names' within an elaborate ritual framework which consists in a maṇḍala that has Mañjuśrī as its central deity. The central part of the thesis comprises a critical edition and annotated translation of the Sanskrit text of the first five chapters of Vilāsavajra's commentary, approximately a quarter of the whole. The critical edition is based on eight Nepalese manuscripts for which a stemma codicum is established. Two blockprint editions of the Tibetan translation are consulted at cruces in the Sanskrit. Their readings, treated as those of any other witness, are incorporated into the apparatus as appropriate. The edition is followed by textual notes. Introductory material is divided into two parts. Matters relating to the Sanskrit and Tibetan materials are discussed in a section placed before the edition. These include a description of the manuscripts, discussion of the method of editing, establishment of the stemma codicum and an assessment of the Tibetan translation. An introduction to the contents precedes the translation and is primarily concerned with an outline of the ritual structure of the commentary, giving particular attention to chapters 1-5. Evidence concerning the life and date of Vilāsavajra is considered, suggesting he should be placed in the latter part of the eighth century. Assessing the work's significance for the study of Buddhism, 1 suggest that it is of historical importance in that it throws light on the process by which Tantric methods were being related to soteriology in this period; and that it contains material, especially in the sādhana of chapter 4, that contributes to an understanding of the development of Tantric forms of Buddhist meditation. The work is also the only known instance of a commentary of a Yogatantra type that survives in Sanskrit.
47
Wong, Suk Yee Julia. "Nicknames in Hong Kong and England: Forms, functions, and their relation to personal names and other forms of address." Thesis, Open University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503597.
Full text
48
Blackmer, Jessie. "Mice, Memory, and Medical history: A Personal Narrative." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1314909047.
Full text
49
Edlund, Lars-Erik. "Studier över nordsvenska ortsboöknamn." Doctoral thesis, Institutet för språk och folkminnen, Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet i Umeå (DAUM), 1985. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-65864.
Full textAbstract:
This thesis deals with collective nicknames denoting the inhabitants of a place (parish, village etc.) in northern Sweden, i.e. names of the type arnästjuvar (denoting the inhabitants of the parish of Arnäs; tjuv 'thief') and tynderötuppar (denoting the inhabitants of the parish of Tynderö; tupp 'cock'). The main aim of the thesis is to explain why various nickname elements were chosen and to describe the general character of the nicknames of northern Sweden. These nicknames have been used collectively about the inhabitants of a certain place in a jocular or derogatory sense. They have been used above all in male-dominated contexts, e.g. in military camps. The nicknames are ethnocentric: they denote individuals in their capacity as members of a group. They are often related to other, similar names, so that they form series which are connected phonetically, semantically or from the point of view of word formation. The discussion of these aspects is based on Hugo Moser's research on "Namenfelder". Sources from about 1600 to the present day have been used as material. The bulk of the material consists of answers to questionnaires from the 20th century. Because of the construction of the questionnaires the material is to some extent imperfect. The nicknames often reflect various aspects of the society of the individuals, but today the explanation for names is quite often secondary and a result of folk-etymology. Some nicknames reflect the trades of the inhabitants, others social conditions, diet or dress, others ethnic conditions. The nickname strömmingar was often given to people living on the coast where fishing was an important source of income. The nickname element finnar reflects local settlement by Finns. Some nicknames probably reflect various linguistic conditions (dialectal pronunciation, characteristic place-names or personal names), pictures in local seals or historical events. Several nickname elements have been chosen through association with the form of the place-name or the name of the inhabitants, or with existing nicknames, referring either to the inhabitants themselves or their neighbours. There is often a similarity in sound between the place-name (or the name of the inhabitants) and nickname elements. We find e.g. alliteration, assonance and rhyme, or formations in which the place-name (or the name of the inhabitants, or part of it) is compounded with a nickname element to make up an appellative which already exists. The latter kind of formation may be illustrated with the nickname bergtroll ('mountain trolls') to denote those who live in S'àvaiberg (in the parish of Sävar). Some nicknames have as their basis an association from the place-name (or the name of the inhabitants) to the nickname element chosen. The associations are frequently difficult to trace. A nickname like orrlidtuppar (denoting those who live in Orrliden in the parish of Skellefteå) was no doubt chosen through association with the appellative orrtupp 'blackcock'. When the nickname smedstaspiken (denoting the inhabitants of Smedsta in the parish of Lit) was coined, the place-name element smed 'smith' was associated with the closely related spik 'nail'. A close analysis of nicknames denoting parish inhabitants in northern Sweden shows that there are often pairs (or series) of nicknames which are related phonetically (through alliteration, assonance or rhyme), semantically or morphologically, just as nicknames denoting neighbours may be connected in a similar way. Frequently, parish inhabitants have different names in relation to different neighbours. How innovations are introduced and spread is shown by the sfw/"/Z?wf-nicknames in the province of Ångermanland. An analysis of the nicknames denoting the inhabitants of parishes in north-eastern Ångermanland shows that the inhabitants of the old parishes have only one nickname each-a name which is known over a large area-while the inhabitants of the newer parishes have several nicknames. The reason why several nicknames are used to denote inhabitants in newer parishes seems to be that there was no old, unequivocal nickname tradition to fall back on. In the final chapter the importance of patterns for the formation of nicknames is stressed, but also the importance of creativity and coinages. A striking coinage has a great chance of becoming generally accepted and also of becoming the centre of new groups of nicknames.digitalisering@umu
50
Lindblom, Else Britt. "Studier över önamnen i Luleå skärgård." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet, 1988. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-79301.
Full textAbstract:
The aim of this thesis is to present and examine the names of the islands in the archipelago of Luleå innorthern Sweden. The basis for the studies is a collection of names, which contains written forms excerpted fromsources from the 14th to the 20th century and local pronunciations of old as well as modern names. The names ofthe islands in the collection have been studied from three aspects.The first study (chapter 2) deals with the structure of the names and especially that of names of islands in doublecompound. The lack of s in names like Storhäll-gründet, where dialects in the south of S weden and StandardSwedish would have Storhälls gründet, is the starting point of the investigation. (Some double compounds have sin the compounding link like Bullerskärs-grundet. They are also discussed.)The hypothesis advanced is that the dialectal distribution of the accent in the names in northern Sweden makes itpossible to show where the link in the double compound is, so the 5, which in Standard Swedish and in thedialects in the south of Sweden is needed to mark the semantic limit between the parts of the compound, is notneeded in the dialects of northern Sweden.The stress in double compounds of th e type AB-C (see above) is on the last element of the name or word: -——. Names in double compound of the type A-BC like Lill-Kvarnören have a different type of accent: — — 1with the stress on the first element of the name or word. The two different main accents in double compounds ofthe type AB-C and A-BC: J— — and — —1 have the status of markers showing where the compounding link inthe compound is, so the s is not needed in the compounds of the type AB-C in the dialects of northern Sweden.The study includes names of isl ands containing double compounds in the whole of Norrbotten and appellativedouble compounds from a collection of words from a village in Nederluleå.The second study (chapter 3) deals with the relationship between the names and the land uplift. The BothnianBay is an area of rapid land uplift. The land uplift has its highest estimated values, 0,9 meters in 100 years, on thecoast north of Skellefteå up to Luleå. Many names of islands have disappeared because the islands have beenuplifted, especially in what used to be large bays, now large shallow lakes like Persöfjärden. New water-surroundedareas have on the other hand been named like Sandgrönnorna, described from old maps from 1790 and fromphotographs from 1946.Chapter 3 consists of three sections, in which separate studies of names in relation to the land uplift are presented.The first section deals with the names ending in -gründet, -grunden. Originally names of under-water localities,they are now names of small islands and gründet has changed its denotation to 'small island' in the area.The second section in chapter 3 presents a method for the dating of names of island in uplifted areas. Many largeislands, now uplifted, still have the names they had as water-surrounded islands. By following the equidistancecurves around the locality it is possible to find out at what equidistance it was surrounded by water. Before thattime it must have been named as an island. That is terminus ante quem, TAO, for the name. The third sectiondeals with the names of vattung, which can be dated from the time of th eir rise above the sea level. A vattung, 5meters high, can thus be about 500 years old, terminus post quem, TPQ, about 1450. The studies presentedabove show that some names can be dated to the Viking Age.The third study (chapter 4) deals with the names of large islands and the colonization. The colonization period ofthe northern part of Sweden is reflected in many names of large islands containing personal names like Hertsönand Germandön. No archipelago in Scandinavia shows such an amount of names of islands containing personalnames. Most personal names are Nordic and can be compared to those in the names ending in -mark in Västerbottenand the south of Norrbotten. - Some of t he names of islands containing personal names have also beendated in chapter 3. They are among the oldest names in Nederluleå.In chapter 5 the names in the studies are put in relation to the historical and archaeological records in Norrbottenand can thus contribute to throwing light upon the colonization period of northern Sweden.digitalisering@umu