Functional Evolution of Hypocoristic Names in Old Russia: Novgorod and Moscow

Student: Bauer Anna

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

The issue of Russian names has been studied by considerable amount of researchers. A sound explanation of origination, forms and usage of different names in Russian and Old Slavonic has been already given. Hypocoristic names are a significant part of Old Slavonic but they have not been quite broadly studied. However, these forms developed differently in Novgorod and Moscow regions of Old Russia. In this paper the documents of these two regions will be studied and compared in order to identify an approximate date of the meaning’s change and the specific features of the hypocoristic names.

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