A magyar családnevek változástipológiájáról

Farkas, Tamás (2015) A magyar családnevek változástipológiájáról. MAGYAR NYELV, 111 (4). pp. 395-408. ISSN 0025-0228

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to take stock of, and briefly introduce, the various types of change that family names (that are essentially lexical items, proper names in particular, that can be inherited) may undergo in the Hungarian linguistic and cultural context. The paper proposes that earlier frameworks of typological description should be expanded: first, certain types of change should be added; and second, artificial changes of names should be included alongside natural ones. The types of change to be described are as follows: 1. complex changes (the emergence and disappearance of certain names); 2. entire changes (abandoning an old name and assuming a new one); 3. partial and regular structural changes (those of syntactic or morphological structure); 4. partial and irregular structural changes (formal vs. semantic ones). In addition, further – albeit different – types of change are also worth considering: 5. partial formal changes (in writing or in speech only); 6. other, special, non- formal changes (of the semantic structure and/or pragmatic status of a proper noun). This typology of changes is necessarily language specific in some respects; but in other respects, especially in its major directions, it can draw the reader’s attention to more general types and tendencies of change.

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