Personal names in Tomislav Lipljin’s Rječnik varaždinskoga kajkavskog govora

• Main Author: Anđela Frančić
• Format: Article
• Language: Croatian
• Published: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje 2011-01-01
• Series: Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje
• Subjects: Tomislav Lipljin; Rječnik varaždinskoga kajkavskog govora; personal name
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/124803

Rječnik varaždinskoga kajkavskoga govora (Dictionary of the Kajkavian speech of Varžadin) by Tomislav Lipljin (Varaždin, 2002) contains onymic data – personal names, family names, nicknames, econyms, names of inhabitants of cities or regions, ethnonyms, microtoponyms, and names of holidays. The personal name is the onymic category that occurs most frequently in the dictionary. The introductory part of the paper will provide a short overview of the dictionary with a special analysis of nominal word entries. The central part of the paper will provide an analysis of personal names attested in the dictionary. They are then analyzed according to the person they denote (male or female) and according to the origin of the name (aloglotic or idioglotic). Linguistic (phonological, morphological, word formation) and extralinguistic features (sociological, historical, etc.) are deduced from the names attested in the dictionary. The author focuses her attention on the occurrence of personal names in name formulas. Personal names included in the dictionary are compared with those occurring in older documents connected with the history of Varaždin and with those given to children today. Attention is given to the definition of personal names in the dictionary entry – the author stresses the need for precise definition. Summing up the characteristics of personal names included in Rječnik varaždinskoga kajkavskog govora, the author stresses the importance of anthroponymic data in dialectological dictionaries.