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Danų asmenvardžių ypatumai
Peculiarities of Danish personal names

Author(s): Birutė Spraunienė
Subject(s): Language studies
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: onomastics; Danish personal names; language planning;

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives a concise overview of the traditions of Danish personal names and giving them to people in Denmark in accordance with the Danish legislation. When discussing the types of Danish personal names, most attention is given to the specific category of a middle name by highlighting the function of this type of personal names characteristic of Scandinavian languages and its differences from more usual categories of names and surnames.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 84
  • Page Range: 240-245
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Lithuanian