Az egy személyre vonatkozó adatok mennyiségének szerepe a névtörténeti kutatásokban
Date: 2008
Subject: személynév
történeti
módszertan
névváltozat
megkülönböztető név
ómagyar kor
magyar
történeti
módszertan
névváltozat
megkülönböztető név
ómagyar kor
magyar
Abstract:
MARIANN SLÍZ, The role of the quantity of data referring to a single person
in historical onomastic research //
The statement that a large quantity of data is required in historical onomastic research could
be interpreted in two different ways. First, it is impossible to carry out macroinvestigations to
examine the features of the name stock of a country, of an era or of a social class without a
suitably large number of data. These surveys, however, must be preceded by microinvestigations
to clarify whether or not an element connected to the name should be considered as a part of the
name, or to decide upon how a name is to be classified, etc. This paper discusses the most
important condition for the success of this latter type of enquiry, presenting cases in which, as a
result of the lack of comparable complementary sources comprising data referring to the same
person, researchers were readily prone to draw unstable, vague conclusions, and in the worst cases
to even be mistaken. With the help of such sources, however, many uncertainties could be avoided.