Amálka a Bobeš, nebo Amálie a Josef?: (K přehodnocování hypokoristik v základní podoby)

• Authors: Miloslava Knappová

Title variants

EN

Amálka and Bobeš, or Amálie and Josef? (On the re-evaluation of hypocoristics into basic forms of given names)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In the Czech Republic, the re-evaluation of unofficial forms of names (hypocoristics) into independent, basic, standard forms is realised on the basis of sociolinguistic surveys (carried out in 1970’s, 1990’s and in 2012). The surveys are stimulated by the impulses from the public claiming that some hypocoristics (e.g. Ondráš, Jarek, Amálka) lost their emotional, unofficial symptoms and are regarded as neutral forms. If these forms are linguistically re- -evaluated into independent, basic ones on the basis of the results of the survey, they are found suitable for the official registration of Czech citizens according to the Czech registry law.

Keywords

CS

onomastika

EN

onomastics; anthroponomastics; given names; hypocoristics

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 162-168
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Miloslava Knappová

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic