The grammar of names /

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 behaviou...

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Anderson, John M.
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Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Zusammenfassung:
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 notdefinite; the other their use as arguments of predicators, where they are definite. This division is discussed in relati
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1 online resource (388 p.)
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-352) and index.
ISBN:
0-19-953395-4
1-281-14566-1
1-4294-8712-7
9786611145668
0-19-153813-2
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