NAMES OF SAINTS, PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM DISEASES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS, LATIN BY ORIGIN
NAMES OF SAINTS, PROTECTING PEOPLE FROM DISEASES AND HEALTH PROBLEMS, LATIN BY ORIGIN
Author(s): Gergana Atanassova PetkovaSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: names of saints; to protect; diseases; health problems; corpus;
Summary/Abstract: The research object of the present text is the names of saints, protecting people from diseases and health problems, and which are Latin by origin. The observation is implemented on the corpus of 41 names of saints and their variants, 29 of which are masculine by gender, and 12 are feminine. These names are classified in several major groups in accordance to the type of disease and health problem, i. e. a thematical group, and in accordance to the type of the appellative as a part of speech and the principles of derivation used in the process of coining the examined anthroponyms.
Journal: Limbaj si context, revista internationala de lingvistica, semiotica si stiinta literara
- Issue Year: 2/2012
- Issue No: IV
- Page Range: 82-88
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
