English family names
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2008
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The English of the British Isles has already been put on the map in a number of national and
regional atlases. In contrast, atlases of English family names are rather few in number and there
are only a very limited number of distributional maps, often without any historical dimension.
A team working at my Chair of English Linguistics and Medieval Studies at the University of
Bamberg have remedied this situation. Since 2004, a number of publications have appeared, or
will appear shortly, that will ultimately lead to a rather comprehensive atlas of English family
names. These are: Viereck 2004 (reprinted in an abridged version in 2005a), 2005b, 2005c,
2006a, 2006b, 2006c, 2007/2008, 2008a, 2008b and Barker et al. 2007. English surnames, of
course, have come down to us in such enormous numbers that only a selection of them can be
dealt with. This contribution is the final paper in the series. It deals with one example each of
the main categories mentioned below, namely a – female – personal name, a local surname, a
nickname and an occupational surname. Some comments on further research desiderata are
made at the end of the paper.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 44 (2008), pp. 155-191