Sobrenomes italianos: um estudo onomástico

Vitalina Maria Frosi

doi:10.5433/2237-4876.2014v17n2p389

ITALIAN SURNAMES: AN ONOMASTIC STUDY

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Vitalina Maria Frosi Universidade de Caxias do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2014v17n2p389

Keywords:

Italian surnames. Motivation sources. Onomastic sign.

Abstract

The theme of this study is the analysis of Italian surnames in the city of Caxias do Sul. The main objective is the search for the root and a variety of pertinent and relevant information related to this theme. The corpus was extracted from baptism registration of people born in the area of the parish of Santa Teresa, in this municipality. The surnames, object of this analysis, covers five motivation sources: profession; place; physical or psychological characteristics, rejected children and of congratulatory nature. To be able to identify etymology as other important information for this study, we have used published works about this subject, mainly from the following dictionaries: Cortelazzo e Zolli (1979); De Felice (1982, 1987); Zingarelli (1983); Devoto e Oli (1990); Caffarelli e Marcato (2008). For this study, we have tried to answer questions related to Italian surnames of people from Caxias do Sul, broadly speaking, by presenting the Italian geographical origin of these names, and when possible, indicating its number of representativeness from the place of origin. We have approached the onomastic sign highlighting the existing distinctive feature between the onomastic and the linguistic sign. The results are partial and restricted because it is an ongoing research.

Author Biography

Vitalina Maria Frosi, Universidade de Caxias do Sul

Possui graduação em Letras Neolatinas pela Universidade de Caxias do Sul (1967), especialização em Dialetologia e Fonética Experimental pela Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa (1971/1972), especialização em Pesquisa Linguistica pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1976), especialização em Corso Invernale di lingua e Cultura Italiana pela Università degli Studi di Firenze (2001), especialização em História e Filosofia da Ciência pela Universidade de Caxias do Sul (1988), mestrado em Linguistica e Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (1989) e doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (1997). Atualmente é professora de Bilinguismo e Dialetologia no Mestrado em Letras, Cultura e Regionalidade da UCS. É professora titular do curso de Letras da Universidade de Caxias do Sul

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2014-12-26

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FROSI, Vitalina Maria. ITALIAN SURNAMES: AN ONOMASTIC STUDY. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 17, n. 2, p. 389–412, 2014. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2014v17n2p389. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/18397. Acesso em: 23 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2014): Volume Atemático

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