By examining telephone directories in conjunction with the existing literature on surnames!
As we saw in section 3, adjective-based surnames differ in some of the paradigm from adjectives.
Nicknames primarily target given names, though surnames may also serve as their inspiration.
Table 1 shows that the values obtained by the second method (male surnames only) are higher than the remainder.
The situation with surnames is slightly more complex because here we cannot derive the inflections directly from the corresponding (possessive) adjectives.
Perhaps the major significance of the surnames is the simple observation that surnames cannot be mistaken for adjectives in the syntax.
Less frequently, comments on surnames, and diet or other distinctive habits might also be mentioned.
The clear signal of co-ancestry exhibited constituted powerful evidence for common origins of men sharing surnames.
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