The Grammar of Names

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-953395-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 665 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of semantics, syntax, psycholinguistics, philosophy of language, and onomastics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Etymologie, Onomastik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Conventions and Abbreviations

- Part I: Why Names?

- 1: Notional Grammar and Names

- 2: Implementation of a National Grammar

- Part II: Approaches to the Study of Names

- 3: Prelude to a Survey of Name Studies

- 4: Onomastics

- 5: Remarks on the Philosophy of Names

- 6: Studies on the Linguistics of Names

- Part III: Towards a Grammar of Names

- 7: Observations Concerning Names and Related Categories

- 8: The Syntax of Names

- 9: Names and the Lexicon

- References

- Author Index

- Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).