Sökning: "proper names"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden proper names.
1. Singular ortnamnsböjning i fornsvenskan : Starkt böjda namn med utgångspunkt från sörmländskt material
Sammanfattning : This study focuses primarily on the inflection of singular place-names belonging to strong declensions and how their inflection developed in the Old Swedish period. It is based mainly on sources from Södermanland. LÄS MER
2. Empty Names and Reference
Sammanfattning : The problem of empty names derives from the fact that empty names fail to refer. The reference failure of empty names implies that sentences containing empty names lack truth-conditions. As a consequence those sentences are meaningless, according to many theories of meaning. LÄS MER
3. Salanus, Tunström och Sporrong : Tillnamnsbruk och framväxten av släktnamn i Uppland
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the development of the surname system in the province of Uppland, Sweden, with special reference to Uppsala, as well as providing a description of the origins of the surname system in Sweden as a whole. The period in question is 1630–1730, in certain cases extending to 1760. LÄS MER
4. Skriva fel och läsa rätt? : Eddiska dikter i Uppsalaeddan ur ett avsändar- och mottagarperspektiv
Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the eddic poetry in the Codex Upsaliensis DG 11 4to, the Uppsala Edda. The manuscript has long been considered too far removed from the assumed original of the text to be of much use to editors, with the result that it was largely neglected by philologists during the last century. LÄS MER
5. Loco ubi dicitur... “La toponomastica di Vallebona e dintorni” : Un territorio di confine tra Liguria e Provenza
Sammanfattning : As a special part of our cultural heritage, toponyms have been handed down orally from generation to generation for centuries or more at the place where they were coined, recalling events, activities and knowledge. Especially where written documentation is relatively young, place names offer a way to reach further back into the past. LÄS MER