A Semantic Analysis of Personal Names in English and Arabic
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
The present study is concerned with introducing a meaning-based analysis of personal names (PNs) in Standard English (SE) and Standard Arabic (SA). It is based on the hypothesis that in both languages surnames are roughly derived from the same sources. Thus, the study is limited to the investigation of personal names including surnames. The paper is divided into two parts: the first sheds light upon the meaning of proper names in English and their relationship with definiteness, origin of surnames and ambiguity of proper names. The second part deals with PNs in Arabic, the way they are coined their categorizations into different classes and on what bases surnames are derived. The results of the study have validated the hypothesis of the work.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.