The grammar of names in Anglo-saxon England : the linguistics and culture of the Old English Onomasticon / Fran Colman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colman, Fran, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Grammar.

English language.

English language--Old English--Grammar.

Physical Description:

xii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 On the onomasticon 1

1.2 Notes on the sources 9

1.3 Gender and the name data 10

Part I On names

2 Names as words 21

2.1 On the (non-) distinctiveness of Old English personal names 21

2.2 Names as nouns? 28

2.3 On functions of names 30

3 Names are not nouns 50

3.1 Names as determiner phrases? 50

3.2 Names and notional grammar 52

3.3 Lexical versus functional categories 56

3.4 Prototypicality and secondary categories 62

3.5 Referentiality and secondary categories 69

3.6 Conversion 74

3.7 Ellipsis 78

4 A name is a name 80

4.1 Names and fixed reference / identification 80

4.2 The onomasticon and the general lexicon 83

4.3 Names and dictionaries 90

4.4 Conclusion to Part I 94

Part II Towards the Old English onomasticon

5 Old English personal name formation 101

5.1 Selection of name elements 101

5.2 Combination of name elements 105

5.3 On 'intelligibility' of Old English 'compound' names 118

5.4 Origins of Old English monothematic name formation 125

6 General lexical formation 151

6.1 Lexical formation and idioms 151

6.2 Lexical formation: derivational morphology 158

6.3 Morphology and the grammar 169

6.4 'Complex' versus 'compound' common words 175

6.5 Old English lexical stress assignment 183

6.6 Conclusion to general lexical formation 189

7 Structures of Old English personal names 190

7.1 'Complex' versus 'compound' Old English names? 190

7.2 Dithematic names and the Old English onomasticon 196

7.3 Reduction of dithematic names 198

7.4 Neutralization 208

7.5 Conclusion to Chapter 7 219

8 On the role of the paradigm as a marker of lexical-item formation 220

8.1 Introduction: the Old English weak suffix 220

8.2 The 'weak ending' and its origins 223

8.3 Germanic weak adjective declension 235

8.4 Old English n-stem monorhematic personal names (or: the suffix on names) 247

8.5 On so-called 'propriale Markierung' as derivational morphology 262

8.6 Conclusion 268

9 An Old English onomasticon 270

9.1 Elements in dithematic names 270

9.2 Mono thematic names 270

9.3 Other nicknames 271

9.4 Conclusion 273

9.5 A sample onomasticon and its activation 274.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198701675

0198701675

OCLC:

870290899