The story behind every name : a study on names and the relationship between the ancestral roots of Singaporean Chinese and their different surnames

• Main Author: Tay, Hayley Sin Yee
• Other Authors: Perono Cacciafoco Francesco
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138288
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Few studies have been done on the subject of names in Singapore, with the most comprehensive study on personal names in Singapore last done in 1997. The primary focus of the first part of this study is to investigate the relationship between the ancestral roots of Singaporean Chinese residents and t...