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The grammar of names in Anglo-Saxon England : the linguistics and culture of the Old English onomasticon / Fran Colman

Author:
Colman, Fran, 1949-
Published:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.On the onomasticon -- 1.2.Notes on the sources -- 1.3.Gender and the name data -- pt. I On names -- 2.Names as words -- 2.1.On the (non-)distinctiveness of Old English personal names -- 2.2.Names as nouns? -- 2.3.On functions of names -- 3.Names are not nouns -- 3.1.Names as determiner phrases? -- 3.2.Names and notional grammar -- 3.3.Lexical versus functional categories -- 3.4.Prototypicality and secondary categories -- 3.5.Referentiality and secondary categories -- 3.6.Conversion -- 3.7.Ellipsis -- 4.A name is a name -- 4.1.Names and fixed reference / identification -- 4.2.The onomasticon and the general lexicon -- 4.3.Names and dictionaries -- 4.4.Conclusion to Part I -- pt. II Towards the Old English onomasticon -- 5.Old English personal name formation -- 5.1.Selection of name elements -- 5.2.Combination of name elements -- 5.3.On `intelligibility' of Old English `compound' names -- 5.4.Origins of Old English monothematic name formation -- 6.General lexical formation -- 6.1.Lexical formation and idioms -- 6.2.Lexical formation: derivational morphology -- 6.3.Morphology and the grammar -- 6.4.`Complex' versus `compound' common words -- 6.5.Old English lexical stress assignment -- 6.6.Conclusion to general lexical formation -- 7.Structures of Old English personal names -- 7.1.`Complex' versus `compound' Old English names? -- 7.2.Dithematic names and the Old English onomasticon -- 7.3.Reduction of dithematic names -- 7.4.Neutralization -- 7.5.Conclusion to Chapter 7 -- 8.On the role of the paradigm as a marker of lexical-item formation -- 8.1.Introduction: the Old English weak suffix <a> -- 8.2.The `weak ending' and its origins -- 8.3.Germanic weak adjective declension -- 8.4.Old English n-stem monothematic personal names (or: the <a> suffix on names) -- 8.5.On so-called `propriale Markierung' as derivational morphology -- 8.6.Conclusion -- 9.An Old English onomasticon -- 9.1.Elements in dithematic names -- 9.2.Monothematic names -- 9.3.Other nicknames -- 9.4.Conclusion -- 9.5.A sample onomasticon and its activation.
Summary:
This work examines the etymology, semantics, and grammatical behaviour of personal names in Anglo-Saxon England and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture.
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ISBN:
9780191771477 (ebook)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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