Download e-book for iPad: Theory and Typology of Proper Names (Trends in Linguistics. by Willy Van Langendonck

This ebook proposes a brand new synthesis of the services of right names, from a semantic, pragmatic and syntactic standpoint. right names are approached constructionally, distinguishing prototypical makes use of from extra marked ones akin to these within which names are used as universal nouns. seeing that what's commonly considered as 'the' type of names seems to be just one attainable functionality of name-forms (though a prototypical one), the suggestion of 'proprial lemma' is brought because the thought at the back of either proprial and appellative makes use of of such different types as position names and private names. New formal arguments are adduced to tell apart right identify functionality from universal noun or pronoun function.

The precise prestige of right names is captured in a unified pragmatic-semantic-syntactic thought: a formal identify denotes a special entity on the point of langue to make it psychosocially salient inside a given easy point class. The which means of the identify, if any, doesn't ascertain its denotation. a massive formal mirrored image of this characterization of names is their skill to seem in such shut appositional structures as the poet Burns or Fido the dog. The neurolinguistic discovering that right names represent a separate class is brought and interpreted inside a normal linguistic body of reference. different forms of meanings linked to names (categorical, associative, emotive, and grammatical) are proven to be presuppositional in nature. additionally, the publication proposes a wholly new category of right names as forming a continuum starting from prototypical (personal and position names) to nonprototypical different types (brand and language names) to citations and autonyms, and a brand new diachronic type of relations names and nicknames.

This e-book fills a big hole within the present literature, as the most up-to-date linguistic ebook in English on identify idea dates again to 1973. it really is explicitly interdisciplinary, considering linguistic, philosophical, neurolinguistic, sociolinguistic and dialect geographical elements of right names.