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Zusatztext ...valuable insights...The book is impeccably written and produced. Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Presents an account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics, this work 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
