Słowotwórstwo żeńskich nazw osobowych w szamotulskiej księdze ławniczej z lat 1567–1579

Abstrakt

The article focuses on the analysis of female names recorded in the aldermen’s book of Szamotuły from the end of the 16th century. 174 personal names of this type have been excerpted from the studied book, documented in the text in 527 nominal groups of different lexical composition. The outlined subject of the article eliminates from the field of observation those groups, referring to women, which are based only on the name. Personal names are analysed from two points of view: as units of the linguistic system and as units functioning in a specific communicative community. This scope of analyses allows researchers to look upon the anthroponymic units not only with regard to their formal word-formative structure (reconstruction of word-formative models), but also from the point of view of their functions in the text (the units with defined references, including co-referential units). The studied derivatives are exponents of two semantic relationships: ojciec–córka (father–daughter) and mąż–żona (husband–wife). The first group is represented by 17, the second by 151 derivatives. Among onyms referring to women, there are also few derivatives created according to formal word-formative models, e.g. Popczynka < *Popczyna.