Assessing Geo-Location and Gender Information in Han Chinese Personal Names

Authors

Deryle W. Lonsdale, Brigham Young UniversityFollow
Bruce Brown, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Cross-Cultural onomastic research

Abstract

Brigham Young University is a particularly optimal academic institution for comparative cross-cultural onomastic research. There are over 65 nations represented by five or more students at BYU, and in fall semester of 2004, 10252 of the 29729 students had lived for two years in a foreign country.

Original Publication Citation

Collateral Anthroponomastic Information in Han Chinese Names for the Identification of Geo-locationand Gender. American Name Society, Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, January 2006.[co-author: Bruce Brown]

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Lonsdale, Deryle W. and Brown, Bruce, "Assessing Geo-Location and Gender Information in Han Chinese Personal Names" (2006). Faculty Publications. 6800.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6800

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics and English Language

University Standing at Time of Publication

Associate Professor

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