The Grammar of Names [Hardcover]

This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics the author examines the distribution and subcategorization of names within a framework of syntactic categories and considers how the morphosyntactic behavior of names connects to their semantic roles in a range of languages. John Anderson's original and accessible investigation will appeal to scholars and advanced students of linguistics and philosophy.

Part I Why Names?
1. Notional Grammar and Names
2. Implementation of a Notional 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. Names and Related Categories
8. The Syntax of Names
9. Names and the Lexicon
References
Index

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 includeThe Grammar of Case(CUP, 1971);Old English Phonology(with Roger Lass, CUP, 1975);Principles ofDependency Phonology(with Colin J. Ewen, CUP, 1987);Linguistic Representation(Mouton de Gruyter, 1992);A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories(CUP, 1997), andModern Grammars of Case(OUP, 2006).