Naming is an activity inherent to the human species, therefore, a privilege of humans! Since
the dawn of humanity, human beings have named people, sensations, things, and spaces …

by ELIANE S. AZEVEDO Laborat6rio de Gengtica Medica, Hospital Prof. Edgard Santos,
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Ba. 40.000, Brazil. 30 viii 79 After an enormous …

This chapter offers a general overview of the history of proper names in Brazil from the
colonial period until current times: place names and personal names. This historical …

The purpose of this article is to present the characteristics of a group of anthroponyms in
order to point out some directions for studies of Brazilian anthroponymy. This article is based …

This article aims to analyze the native notion ofauthorship present in the Kapinawa Indian
community, localized in Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. Based on the notion …

Toponymy, a branch of onomastics, is the linguistic science which aims at studying the
names of physical and human geographic features, from the analysis of the language …

The development of research in the field of Onomastics, the linguistic science that is
dedicated to the study of proper names, should not be ruled on a purely linguistic bias, since …

Este trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar aspectos semânticos observados em
antropônimos da língua Parkatêjê. Atualmente o povo Parkatêjê vive em aldeias na …

Objetivos O objetivo primordial da revista é incentivar e difundir, para a comunidade em
geral, produções científicas e artísticas que dialoguem com o direito, a política ou temas da …

Onomastics is an integral part of Lexicology, characterized as a language discipline
containing two fields of study: Anthroponymy and Toponymy. Both use proper names as the …