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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colman, Fran, 1949- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Oxford linguistics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; The Grammar of Names in Anglo-Saxon England: The Linguistics and Culture of the Old English Onomasticon; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Conventions and Abbreviations; Conventions; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 On the onomasticon; 1.2 Notes on the sources; 1.3 Gender and the name data; Part I On names; 2 Names as words; 2.1 On the (non- )distinctiveness of Old English personal names; 2.1.1 Why Old English personal names?; 2.1.2 Names, associative coordination, and the lexicon; 2.2 Names as nouns?; 2.3 On functions of names; 2.3.1 Individual identification.
  • 2.3.2 Purely referential function?; 2.3.3 Classificatory function; 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; Part 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; 5.4.1 'Dithematic' and 'monothematic'; 5.4.2 Lall names; 5.4.3 Bynames; 5.4.4 Hypocorism; 5.4.5 Hypocorism and suffixation; 5.4.6 Hypocorism and consonant gemination; 5.4.7 Nicknames; 5.4.8 Conclusion and continuation; 6 General lexical formation; 6.1 Lexical formation and idioms; 6.1.1 'Lexical formation' versus 'word formation'; 6.1.2 Lexical formation: compounding; 6.2 Lexical formation: derivational morphology.
  • 6.2.1 On distinctions expressed by inflectional versus derivational morphology; 6.2.2 How derivational and inflectional distinctions may be expressed; 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: to complex or simplex?; 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 ; 8.2 The 'weak ending' and its origins; 8.2.1 Indo-European n-stems; 8.2.2 n-stem 'nomina agentis'; 8.2.3 n-stem 'attributive nouns'; 8.2.4 n-stem bynames; 8.2.5 n-stem Germanic adjective declensions; 8.2.6 Summary of derivation to n-stems; 8.2.7 n-stem lexical semantics; 8.2.8 n-stems and 'definiteness'; 8.2.9 Summary; 8.3 Germanic weak adjective declension; 8.3.1 Strong and weak nouns; strong and weak adjective declensions.