This contribution offers an overview of the formation of Slovak onomastics as a scientific discipline from the 1940's onwards when the foundations of theoretical onomastics were laid. In 1964, the Slovak onomastic commission was founded which was able to organize a series of onomastic conferences. Unfortunately, no special department for research of proper names has been established at 'Jazykovedny ustav Ludovita Stura' of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
The official name Pavel PAVEL sufficiently illustrates the fact that the content of a name is not solely determined by its reference relation. The distinction between the first name (Pavel) and surname (PAVEL) is possibly due to the elements of deep structure (system) which are not bound to the reference relation. These are e. g. the following: official/non-official name, validity/invalidity from birth, hereditary/non-hereditary name.
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