Name structures and name survival

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Свидетельства эпиграфики. Античная история в зеркале древних надписей

В данной работе античные инскрипции представлены как источник к изучению следующих страниц в истории Греции и Рима: локальные языки и местные культуры, античные имена, семья и общество, светская и религиозная жизнь, экономика.Настоящая монография издана в серии "Approaching the Ancient World". Приложения: краткий справочник наиболее авторитетных международных изданий античных надписей (с. 153-174), библиография (с. 191-225), указатель источников (с. 226-232), общий указатель (с. 233-246)

Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica

Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties. Whites were listed by first name and surname; slaves were denoted by first name, sometimes accompanied by a modifier referring to age, occupation, or ethnicity; and stock were merely enumerated. Thus, on July 3, 1782, Thomas Thistlewood, penkeeper and proprietor of Breadnut Island Pen, rode to Savanna La Mar and handed to his fellow vestrymen the names of his thirty-two slaves. The list began with the first slave that he owned—an Ibo slave called Lincoln—and ended with his most recent addition— Nancy, the one-year-old daughter of Phoebe, a Coromantee slave purchased in 1765. He also noted that he owned thirty unnamed head of cattle

Black Italianità: Citizenship and Belonging in the Black Mediterranean

This article discusses the fraught relationship between legal citizenship and Black belonging as depicted in the works of two Black Italian women writers. The protagonists in the short story “Salsicce” (“Sausages”) by Igiaba Scego and the novella Kkeywa: Storia di una bimba meticcia by Carla Macoggi resist multiple forms of dispossession and struggle to hold on to the autonomy of their self-identification and cultural attachments. Both Scego and Macoggi affirm the necessity to reclaim the power of self-definition, self-representation, and political agency when reckoning with the citizenship project and its inherent exclusions. Thus, these writings showcase the importance of studying the dynamic body of Black literature in Italian and offer us insight into some of the racialized, gendered, and religious negotiations of Italian sociopolitics for Black people navigating life throughout Italy and the Mediterranean.

Properhood

A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work comprehensively while PROPER is understood as a subcategory of linguistic units, whether of lexemes or phrases. Phrases of the type the old vicarage, which are potentially ambiguous with regard to properhood, encourage the suggestion that PROPER is best understood as mode of reference contrasting with SEMANTIC reference; in the former, the intension/sense of any lexical items within the referring expression, and any entailments they give rise to, are canceled. PROPER NAMES are all those expressions that refer nonintensionally. Linguistic evidence is given that this opposition can be grammaticalized, speculation is made about its neurological basis, and psycholinguistic evidence is adduced in support. The PROPER NOUN,asa lexical category, is argued to be epiphenomenal on proper names as newly defined. Some consequences of the view that proper names have no sense in the act of reference are explored; they are not debarred from having senses (better: synchronic etymologies) accessible during other (meta)linguistic activities

Front Cover and Publication Information, Volume 18 Number 3

Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents

Beszámoló a XXIV. Nemzetközi Névtudományi Kongresszusról

Report on the 24th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences     The International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) organized its twenty-fourth congress entitled “Names in daily life” in Barcelona, 5–9 of September, 2011. The approximately 450 participants in the congress were able to present the results of their recent research in sessions focusing on these various topics: Terminology, Onomastic Theory, Onomastics and Linguistics, Names in Society, Anthroponomastics, Toponomastics, Onomastics and History, Onomastics and Geography, Onomastics and Culture, Cartography and Place Names: New Platforms for Information Management, Onomastics and Standardization Process, and Catalan Onomastics