Mechanisms of adaptation of Christian anthroponyms in Votic and Ingrian: a comparative study
... systematic reconstruction. The empirical basis of the research comprises data from fieldwork, archival sources, and lexicographic materials dating from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The analysis identifies the principal strategies of phonological and morphological adaptation of borrowings and determines the dominant models underlying anthroponymic transformation. The findings demonstrate that a substantial proportion of Votic and Ingrian personal name forms derive not from canonical ...
