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Restrictions on Alliteration and Rhyme in the Swedish System of Personal Names in the Light of Old Germanic Parallels
(York University, 2009)
I intend to demonstrate that the Swedish surname system is characterized by certain morphophonotactic restrictions,
including a reluctance to use rhyme and alliteration in dithematic surnames, as for example in the
following, ...
The Choice of First Names as a Social Resource and Act of Identity among Multilingual Families in Contemporary Sweden
(York University, 2009)
All choices we make, linguistic choices as well as others, are to some extent choices of identity. This includes parents’ choices of first names for their children. Through such choices they create an identity for the ...