This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics, John Anderson examines the distribution and subcategorization of names within a framework of syntactic categories, and considers how the morphosyntactic behaviour of names connects to their semantic roles. He argues that names occur in two basic circumstances: one involving vocatives and their use in naming predications, where they are not definite; the other their use as arguments of predicators, where they are definite. This division is discussed in relation to English, French, Greek, and Seri, and a range of other languages. Professor Anderson reveals that the semantic status of names, including prototypicality, is crucial to understanding their morphosyntax and role in derivational relationships. He shows that semantically coherent subsets of names, such as those referring to people and places, are characterized by morphosyntactic properties which may vary from language to language.
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John Anderson is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh where he worked successively as a lecturer (1966-76), reader (1976-88), and professor (1988-2001). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Denmark, Poland, Greece, and Spain; and given lecture series in Italy, Belgium, Austria, the former Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Hungary. His books include The Grammar of Case (CUP, 1971); Old English Phonology (with Roger Lass, CUP, 1975); Principles of Dependency Phonology (with Colin J. Ewen, CUP, 1987); Linguistic Representation (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992); A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories (CUP, 1997), and Modern Grammars of Case (OUP, 2006).
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As the title of this work announces, what follows is concerned with the grammar of 'names', sometimes distinguished as 'proper names' or 'proper nouns'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
free absolutive, onymic reference, didactic nomination, partitive functor, prototypical names, notional grammar, phrasal names, performative nomination, traditional onomastics, inactive names, functor phrases, nomination structures, apposed element, determinative phrases, onomastic system, onomastic tradition, identificatory function, overt article, categorial meaning, encyclopaedic information, vocative names, partitive relation, other determinatives, syntactic categorization, lexical redundancy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Study of Names, Grammar of Names, Van Langendonck, Old English, Ohio State University, Straits of Magellan, Bay of Biscay, University of Queensland, John Smith, Baffin Bay, Onomazete Vasilis, Glasgow University, Mount Everest, The Old Vicarage, Lundy Island, Isles of Scilly, The Hague, Davis Strait, Scilly Isles, Isle of Sheppey, Port Royal Grammar, Gómez de Silva, Hipíix Juan, Tony Blair, Long Island Browse Sample Pages:
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