ANTHROPONYM <i>HANS </i>- RESULT AND MOTIVATOR OF DERIVATION PROCESSES
The paper deals with a comprehensive study of the proper name Hans: the history of its origin, lexicalization, grammatical and phonographic formalization, as well as its semantic and functional features within different periods of German language development. Anthroponym is considered as a product of derivation and as a word-formation basis for the production of new onym units. It is fixed the modern status of the name, its derivatives and the word-building means are identified.