Veliuonos apylinkių gyventojų pravardės: onomasiologinė motyvacija
Nicknames of the residents of the environs of Veliuona: onomasiological motivation

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses 386 nicknames of residents recorded in the environs of Veliuona in the framework of the project of the Institute of the Lithuanian Language Modern Research of Geolinguistics in Lithuania: The Optimisation of the Network of Points and Interactive Spread of Dialectal Information. The research aims at identifying the onomastic motivation of nicknames, i.e. the reasons of choice determining the structure and appellative meaning of nicknames. The study of nicknames is onomasiological. Only those nicknames are discussed the motives of which were specified by respondents. The methodology selected will enable us to identify the most common motives for the creation of nicknames, the characteristic connotations and the typical features individualising local residents encoded in nicknames.

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