{"id":1150,"date":"2010-12-15T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-09-24T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T08:07:39","slug":"europaische-personennamensysteme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Europ\u00e4ische Personennamensysteme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Europ\u00e4ische Personennamensysteme<\/strong>: Ein Handbuch von Abasisch bis Zentralladinisch. Ed. by <strong>Andrea Brendler<\/strong> and <strong>Silvio Brendler<\/strong>. (Lehr und Handb\u00fccher zur Onomastik 2.) Hamburg: Baar-Verlag, 2007. Pp. 863. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/europaische-personennamensysteme-ein-handbuch-von-abasisch-bis-zentralladinisch-anlasslich-der-65-geburtstage-von-rosa-kohlheim-und-volker-kohlheim\/oclc\/212371906&amp;referer=brief_results\">9783935536653<\/a>. $186.71 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/cola\/depts\/germanic\/faculty\/mp4475\"><strong>Marc Pierce<\/strong><\/a>, <em>University of Texas at Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This sizeable volume offers exactly what the title indicates: discussions of the personal naming systems of a number of European languages. It is dedicated to Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, both of whom have published extensively on onomastics. The book begins with the normal paraphernalia of a handbook or <em>Festschrift<\/em>: a brief dedication to the Kohlheims; an essay, \u2018Zum Geleit\u2019 by <strong>Ernst Eichler<\/strong> that outlines the Kohlheims\u2019 work; a brief foreword by the editors; a table of contents; and a list of abbreviations used in the work. The book proper begins with the essay \u2018Europ\u00e4ische Personennamensysteme\u2019 (21\u201324), which justifies the publication of the book, defines \u2018Personennamensystem\u2019 (\u2018ein strukturierter\u2026und funktionaler\u2026Komplex von Personennamen\u2019 [21]) and \u2018europ\u00e4isch\u2019, and outlines the content and structure of the handbook.<\/p>\n<p>The meat of the book consists of entries on the personal naming systems of an impressively broad range of seventy-seven languages, including Albanian, Basque, English, Maltese, and Slovenian. All of the entries are similarly structured. For example, <strong>Sirkka Paikkala<\/strong>\u2019s chapter on Finnish (\u2018Das finnische Personennamensystem\u2019 [200\u201314]) begins with a brief introduction, then discusses the development of first names (covering such issues as the use of Finnish versions of originally foreign names) and then of last names and patronymics (with a treatment of, e.g. the use of names by the nobility, the military, and farmers), and concludes with an outline of the relevant literature and an extensive bibliography.<\/p>\n<p>In many respects, this is a valuable and useful work. The individual entries pack a good deal of information into a relatively limited space, and the book well repays the browser. At times a bit more editorial control could have been exercised (the terminology is not always consistent from entry to entry, as the editors admit in the foreword), a more complete table of contents would make the book handier to use, and the price of the volume will doubtless keep it out of the hands of many potential readers. Nevertheless, this book is a good resource for those interested in European personal names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europ\u00e4ische Personennamensysteme: Ein Handbuch von Abasisch bis Zentralladinisch. Ed. by Andrea Brendler and Silvio Brendler. (Lehr und Handb\u00fccher zur Onomastik 2.) Hamburg: Baar-Verlag, 2007. Pp. 863. ISBN 9783935536653. $186.71 (Hb). Reviewed by Marc Pierce, University of Texas at Austin This sizeable volume offers exactly what the title indicates: discussions of the personal naming systems of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}