The author's inaugural dissertation, Amsterdam. / Errata slip laid in. "Verzeichnis alexandrinischer bürgernamen": p. [103]-127. "Quellenverzeichnis": p. [65]-101.

This dissertation examines the uses, functions, and meaningfulness of traditional personal names and naming practices in Niitsitapi (Blackfoot Indian) culture. The current study indicates that Niitsitapi personal names appear to play a major role in capturing and conveying various aspects of traditional Niitsitapi sociocultural knowledge. Niitsitapi personal names thus appear to form an integral part of Niitsitapi oral tradition, and also seem to play a powerful role in establishing and maintaining Niitsitapi conceptualisations of individual, as well as social and cultural, identity. This dissertation supports the position that, in addition to their nominative function, names contain and communicate sociocultural meaning, based on their associations with a wide range of non-linguistic factors which form part of the sociocultural environment within which they are used. The methodological approach stresses the importance of studying personal names in cultural context and strongly emphasises the use of indigenous knowledge as a means of explaining personal naming phenomena from a native cultural perspective. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / M. A. (Sociolinguistics)

The Vhavenḓa are a conservative society and although they admire and follow other people’s cultures, they do not do this at the expense of their own traditions. Most Vhavenḓa are found in the far north of South Africa. The second largest group of Vhavenḓa is found in Gauteng Province. Vhavenḓa first met with the Europeans in the 19th century. The greatest influence on Tshivenḓa culture was brought about by the missionaries, who came with the aim of colonizing Africa and discouraging Africans from following their own culture and traditions, which the missionaries regarded as paganism. They forced Africans to change their African personal names and replace them with European ones, especially if they wanted to attend mission schools or when they sought employment. Traditionally, Tshivenḓa personal names were chosen by the male grandparent or another senior male person, or the role was played by the father of the child. The mother of the child did not have any say in the selection or bestowal of a personal name (Herbert, 1986; Moyo, 1996; Nkumane, 1999; Ndimande, 1998). Whenever Africans choose a personal name, it bears a particular meaning or it is the name of a deceased member of the family (Raper, 1983; Stayt, 1931; Thipa, 1986; Yanga, 1978). They do this in order to pacify the deceased. Africans believe that there are always connections between the living and the dead and that the dead have great influence on the lives of the living. Vhavenḓa practice teknonymy. The parents and the grandparents are addressed by the personal names of their children and grandchildren respectively. The name that is commonly used in this instance is the name of the firstborn. It happens that at times the personal names of the parents and grandparents are never used: some members of the community might never know these people by their real names (Arensen, 1988; Thipa, 1987). African personal names should all have meanings. They are used as a short history of the family or the community. Whenever personal names are used in communication, friction between people is minimized. Morphologically, Tshivenḓa personal names are derived from various Tshivenḓa word categories. They are formed using different morphemes that are available in the language. These morphemes assign meaning to the personal name. / African languages / D. Litt. et Phil. (African languages)

O presente trabalho visa a estudar a motivação e a classificação dos sobrenomes da comunidade de Nova Milano, localizada em Farroupilha, na Região de Colonização Italiana do Nordeste do Rio Grande do Sul. O corpus da pesquisa origina-se de dados coletados em fontes primárias, a saber, registros de batismo da paróquia de Nova Milano, e consiste em amostragem desenvolvida a partir dos 9444 sobrenomes registrados entre os anos de 1898 e 2014. Os sobrenomes são classificados e analisados de acordo com os dicionários de Caffarelli e Marcato (2008), Guérios (1981) e Mioranza (1997). Foi realizada a análise histórica e etimológica de 110 sobrenomes italianos, por meio da qual é possível verificar que a maior parte dos sobrenomes é oriunda de nomes pessoais e de características físicas.Além disso, observa-se que, entre 1898 e 2014, há predominância de sobrenomes de origem italiana, os quais representam 69% do total, enquanto os de origem não italiana perfazem 31%. Por fim, analisam-se os dados sob uma perspectiva cultural, mostrando que os sobrenomes italianos permaneceram com maior incidência ao longo das décadas. / Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2016-11-23T13:14:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Patricia Peroni.pdf: 2063754 bytes, checksum: 8b4ca3325add97054e583b5a8c610b9e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-23T13:14:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Patricia Peroni.pdf: 2063754 bytes, checksum: 8b4ca3325add97054e583b5a8c610b9e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES. / The present work aims to study the motivation and classification of surnames belonged to Nova Milano’s community, located in Farroupilha, in a region of Italian colonization in the Northeast of Rio Grande do Sul. The corpus of the research comes from data collected in primary sources (baptism registers found at Nova Milano’s parish church) and consists on a sample developed from the 9444 registered surnames between 1898 and 2014. The surnames are classified and analysed according to Caffarelli and Marcato (2008), Guérios (1981) and Mioranza (1997) dictionaries. The results show the most part of the surnames comes from personal names and physical characteristics. Besides, it is possible to note that, between 1898 and 2014, there is a predominance of Italian surnames, which represent 69% from the total, while the non-italian represent 31%. Finally, this work seeks to analyze the data from a cultural perspective.

O presente trabalho visa a estudar a motivação e a classificação dos sobrenomes da comunidade de Nova Milano, localizada em Farroupilha, na Região de Colonização Italiana do Nordeste do Rio Grande do Sul. O corpus da pesquisa origina-se de dados coletados em fontes primárias, a saber, registros de batismo da paróquia de Nova Milano, e consiste em amostragem desenvolvida a partir dos 9444 sobrenomes registrados entre os anos de 1898 e 2014. Os sobrenomes são classificados e analisados de acordo com os dicionários de Caffarelli e Marcato (2008), Guérios (1981) e Mioranza (1997). Foi realizada a análise histórica e etimológica de 110 sobrenomes italianos, por meio da qual é possível verificar que a maior parte dos sobrenomes é oriunda de nomes pessoais e de características físicas.Além disso, observa-se que, entre 1898 e 2014, há predominância de sobrenomes de origem italiana, os quais representam 69% do total, enquanto os de origem não italiana perfazem 31%. Por fim, analisam-se os dados sob uma perspectiva cultural, mostrando que os sobrenomes italianos permaneceram com maior incidência ao longo das décadas. / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES. / The present work aims to study the motivation and classification of surnames belonged to Nova Milano’s community, located in Farroupilha, in a region of Italian colonization in the Northeast of Rio Grande do Sul. The corpus of the research comes from data collected in primary sources (baptism registers found at Nova Milano’s parish church) and consists on a sample developed from the 9444 registered surnames between 1898 and 2014. The surnames are classified and analysed according to Caffarelli and Marcato (2008), Guérios (1981) and Mioranza (1997) dictionaries. The results show the most part of the surnames comes from personal names and physical characteristics. Besides, it is possible to note that, between 1898 and 2014, there is a predominance of Italian surnames, which represent 69% from the total, while the non-italian represent 31%. Finally, this work seeks to analyze the data from a cultural perspective.

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The overall questions that were provided in the higher degrees proposal have been fairly answered throughout this doctoral dissertation. The following questions have been asked and answered throughout the thesis: What has been identified a's changes from traditional naming practices to Western naming practices? What morphophological comparisons can be made in naming practices? What influenced the cultural and historical background and language of the Shangase clan? Every social group of people has certain norms of behaviour. How does this culturally and structurally affect the system of naming within the Shangase Clan? Since there are different language names, how are these names related, or can any: system of their relationship be found within the Shangase Clan? From which parts of speech are different names (which are nouns) normally derived and what prefixal and suffixal elements are applied? What poetic techniques can be used to analyse the personal praises or praise names of Kings, Royal Family Members and the ordinary people? It has therefore, been realized that the personal names and place names are well known to have played a more substantial role in the identification of different people and places of different clans. Surnames and address names have promoted the identification and classification of different clans. The researcher has used both the qualitative and quantitative research methodologies as tools for data collection. Research methods have entailed verbal descriptive practices, which include oral inquiries, questionnaires, interviews and observational information. The purpose of this research has been to locate the study within the context of the topic and the historical background of the Shangase people which eventually deals with personal names, place-names and personal praises. The literature has been reviewed according to the recommendations of the researcher's supervisor Prof S.E. Ngubane. Five scholars were chosen and the focus was on history, genealogy, linguistic, onomastics of personal names, place-names and how these names are derived and changed from time to time with naming practices changing from generation to generation. This has enabled every member of the Shangase clan to identify himself easily with the founder, Shangase (Mkheshane), son of Vumizitha, of Mthebe of Mnguni 1. The researcher's main objective has been to focus on the history and genealogy of the Shangase clan from the time of Vumizitha (d.c.l688) to the present time (AD 2006), how personal names and place names are given when one looks at the circumstances of naming and history surrounding the names and the linguistic analysis of the onomactic elements. The personal names, place names and praise names are analysed and synthesized within the parameters of word formation, and as words they are isolated or syntactically used to assign a particular meaning in Zulu. Lastly, the researcher is mostly interested in this study because, as a member of the Shangase Community, he has a thorough knowledge of where the Shangase clan is located. The researcher's method of interviews using interview questionnaires assisted him to accomplish the main objectives. Through these interviews and observations, the researcher highly recommends that those who might be able to read this thesis, and feel interested and create new challenges in the field of onomastics, which the researcher hopes this thesis has done, should further undertake a study of personal praises within the Shangase clan. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2006.

Univ., Diss.--Saarbrücken, 2002.

Thesis--Lund. / Extra t.p., with thesis note and imprint (Lund, H. Ohlssons boktr., 1950) inserted. Bibliography: p. [9]-17.

O presente trabalho, realizado no Programa de Doutorado em Letras da Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS) e do Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis (UniRitter), pesquisa situada no ramo da Onomástica, tem como objetivo geral mapear os nomes das crianças batizadas na Paróquia Santa Teresa, de Caxias do Sul-RS, bem como relacioná-los ao contexto histórico, sociocultural e religioso da comunidade. O método utilizado no desenvolvimento do presente trabalho foi o indutivo. Partimos dos dados registrados, fizemos a sua análise e os explicamos, para, depois, estabelecermos generalizações. A pesquisa é documental e bibliográfica, e leva em conta o modelo qualitativo de análise, conjugando-o com o quantitativo pela utilização de dados, de suas ocorrências e dos respectivos percentuais. O corpus é compreendido por 57.168 nomes de pessoas com batismo registrado entre 1875 e 2005, sendo que o total dos nomes mais recorrentes (masculinos e femininos, agrupados) corresponde a 47,5% da amostra. Eles são divididos em gêneros e em quatro períodos pré-estabelecidos (1875-1906, 1908-1939, 1941-1972, 1974-2005). O recorte efetuado para realização deste estudo compreende a área de abrangência da Paróquia de Santa Teresa de Caxias do Sul-RS. Foi escolhida a comunidade dessa paróquia por ter sido essa igreja a primeira criada, em 20 de maio de 1884, na então Colônia Caxias, nove anos depois da chegada dos imigrantes italianos. Pelo caráter interdisciplinar, o estudo onomástico estabelece outras relações acerca do nome, evidenciando aspectos linguísticos e culturais que dizem respeito tanto a um indivíduo, quanto à comunidade em que ele vive. / Submitted by cmquadros@ucs.br (cmquadros@ucs.br) on 2018-01-30T16:57:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Tríssia Ordovás Sartori.pdf: 2683308 bytes, checksum: fbc5b3aedd06bd0606a1f5a8ec336d57 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-30T16:57:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Tríssia Ordovás Sartori.pdf: 2683308 bytes, checksum: fbc5b3aedd06bd0606a1f5a8ec336d57 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-01-30 / The present work, conducted in the Doctoral Program in Literature at the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS) and the University Center Ritter dos Reis (UniRitter), research located in the branch of Onomastics, has as the main objective to map the names of the children baptized in Saint Teresa Parish, in Caxias do Sul-RS, as well as to relate them to the historical, sociocultural and religious context of the community. The method used in the development of the present study was the inductive. We started from the recorded data, proceeded to their analysis and explained them, to then establish generalizations. The research is documental and bibliographic, and takes into account the qualitative analysis model, combining it with the quantitative for the use of data, their occurrences and their percentages. The cut made for this study comprises the coverage area of St. Teresa Parish, in Caxias do Sul-RS. It was chosen this parish community for being it the first church established, in May 20, 1884, in the then Caxias Colony, nine years after the arrival of the Italian immigrants. By its interdisciplinary character, the Onomastic study establishes other relations concerning the name, showing linguistic and cultural aspects that relate both to an individual, as to the community in which he lives.