Towards a structural description of some personal names: A case study
Keywords:
anthroponomy, graduation brochure, personal name, structural descriptionAbstract
This study focuses on descriptive analysis of structure of personal names in the University of Cape Coast (UCC)’s 49th graduation brochure of the school of graduate studies. With reference to Agyekum (2006)’s classification of given and surnames, the research used doctrinal research method which largely depends on a collection and study of secondary data from various books as published by eminent scholars. This equally refers to as library-based research where texts or documents published in official, legal and journal articles are studied. The study found that personal names in the official document had three different structures of basically two components; given name(s) and surname. The name order is surname before the given name(s) and this is in conformity with name ordering in official documents.
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