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Krongauz M. A. Piperski A. Ch. Tillabaeva A. A.

Full and short personal names in Russian: a quantitative study

DOI
10.5922/2225-5346-2020-4-7
Pages
80-90
addressing personal name full personal name short personal name statisti­cal methods corpus linguistics

Abstract

The paper presents a statistical study of the use of variant forms of Russian personal names. It is shown that Russian names can be divided into two classes: names with full and short forms contrast with names that only have one neutrally used form. For names that have a distinct short form, the frequencies of full and short forms can relate to each other in differ­ent ways. This depends on various factors, such as the length of the full name and the gender of its owner: for longer names and female names, the short form is more common. Based on data from the Russian National Corpus, it is proved that the use of the full name as a form of address has been increasing in the last 15 to 30 years.

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