Augalinės kilmės asmenvardžiai šiuolaikinėje lietuvių vaikų prozoje
Anthroponyms of Plant Origin in Contemporary Lithuanian Prose for Children

Summary/Abstract: The object of the research article is the names of 82 characters featuring plant origin (36 names of persons, 26 names of mythological and fictitious creatures and 20 names of animals) which were found in 41 piece of literature by 27 contemporary children prose literature authors. The process of onymisation i.e. the conversion of common words into proper names is discussed; also, the ways of derivation and formats of characters’ names are analyzed, as well as the lexemes serving as the most common underlying words are identified and the function of such names in fiction texts is discussed.

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