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Journal of Lexicography and Terminology, Volume 1, Issue 2 Issues in the Linguistics of Onomastics By Vincent M. Chanda School of Humanities and Social Science University of Zambia Email: mchanda@@gmail.com Abstract Names, also called proper names or proper nouns, are very important to mankind that there is no human language without names and, for some types of names, there are written or unwritten naming conventions. The social importance of names is also the reason why onomastics, the study of names, is a multidisciplinary field. After briefly discussing the multidisciplinary nature of onomastics, the article proves the following view stated and proved by many a scholar: proper names have a grammar that includes some grammatical features of common nouns. In so doing, the article shows that, like common nouns, proper names show cross linguistic differences. To prove that names do have a grammar which in some aspects differs from the grammar of common nouns, the article often compares proper names and common nouns. Furthermore, the article uses data from several languages in addition to English. After a bief discussion of orthographic differences between proper names and common nouns, the article focuses on the morphology, both inflectional and lexical, and the syntax of proper names. Key words: Name, common noun, onomastics, multidisciplinary, naming convention, typology of names, anthroponym, inflectional morphology, lexical morphology, derivation, compounding, syntac. 67 Journal of Lexicography and Terminology, Volume 1, Issue 2 1. Introduction Onomastics or onomatology, is the study of proper names. Proper names are terms used as a means of identification of particular unique beings. Onomastics is not only a branch of linguistics: it is multidisciplinary because a comprehensive account of onomastics involves not only linguistics but also other disciplines such as: (a) Literature, where onomastics is known as literary onomastics; (b) Cultural anthropology and social anthropology, where onomastics can be referred to as anthropological onomastics or anthropology of proper names; and (c) Philosophy, where onomastics can be referred to as philosophical onomastics or philosophy of proper names. Giving examples of particulars that can be given proper names, Wolfram (1989: 243) defines proper names as “the names of individual particulars, such as individual persons, cities, mountains, universities, or battles. The nature of the beings given proper names is a major criterion for the classification of proper nouns.. The term ‘proper name’ is generally considered a synonym of ‘proper noun’, which, in grammar is the opposite of ‘common noun. Concerning proper names and proper nouns, most lexicographers and other writers only define proper nouns, implying that the term ‘proper name’ is synonymous with the term ‘proper noun’, which is more frequently used in the literature. Below are some definitions of proper nouns. (a) A proper noun is “The name of an individual person, place or object, as opposed to a common noun, which refers to any one of all things denoted by the noun” (Hartmann, R.R.K. and F.C Stork (1972)) and the term ‘proper noun’ is synonymous with ‘proper name’. (b) A proper noun is “A noun referring to a particular unique 68 Journal of Lexicography and Terminology, Volume 1, Issue 2 person, place, animal, etc. Contrasted with common noun. (Also called proper name.)” (Chalker and Weiner (1994:319) (c) A proper noun is a “Noun which is the name of a specific individual or of a set of individuals distinguished only by their having that name” (Matthews. P.H. (2005: 300)) (d) Proper nouns “are names of specific people Shakespeare( ), places (Milwaukee), countries (Australia), months (September), days (Thursday), holidays (Christmas), magazines (Vogue), and so forth.” (Quirk and Greenbaum (1973: 76)) (e) Proper nouns “name specific people, animals, institutions, places, times, etc.” (Greenbaum and Weiner (2000: 82)) We notice that, in (b), Chalker and Weiner (1994:319) state that the term ‘proper name’ is synonymous with ‘proper noun’. It is equally worth noting that, in their Dictionary of Language and Linguistics, mentioned at (a) above, Hartmann, R.R.K. and F.C Stork (1972) have an entry proper name not defined shown as an synonym of proper noun. Proper names being terms, their study is also part of terminography, a mere collection of terms, and terminology, which goes beyond collecting terms to explore other issues such as etymology. With regard to name giving and name taking, an individual may choose how to name any of his or her belongings, such an object, a dog or a house, but in most cases not involving personal belongings, there is a ‘naming convention’, a written or unwritten scheme to be followed in name-giving. In many cultures, personal names are given following an unwritten convention while in some organizations there is a written convention. 69 Journal of Lexicography and Terminology, Volume 1, Issue 2 Concerning culture, it is important to bear in mind that religion, if it not part of a culture, supersedes culture or superimposes onto culture. Thus, in many cases, in addition to the name or names given according to their culture, Christians take a Christian name and Muslims a Muslim name. Both some cultures and some religions practise naming ceremonies. One frequent cross-societal parameter in name giving is gender in the sense that the name or one part of the full name depends on the gender of the person named or to be named. For instance, in some cultures and religions some names are only given to males and others to only females. 2. Onomatics Worldwide As pinted out at the beginning of the introduction, onomastics is not only a branch of linguistics, as it is multidisciplinary because a comprehensive account of onomastics involves not only linguistics but also other disciplines”. The multidisciplinary nature of onomastics is reflected by terms such as the terms in (1), referring to some discipline-based types of onomastics: (1) Some discipline-based types of onomastics a. Anthropological onomastics, in cultural anthropology; b. Geographic onomastics, or geonomastics, in geography; c. Linguistic onomastics, in linguistics; d. Literary onomastics, in literature; e. Psychological onomastics, or psychonomastics, in psychology; and f. Sociological onomastics, or socionomastics., in sociology In universities and other institutions of learning, onomastics is dealt with in one of the following four ways: 70 Journal of Lexicography and Terminology, Volume 1, Issue 2 (2) Some discipline-based types of onomastics a. as a component of course, for example a course in (i) sociolinguistics, (ii) semantics, (iii) morphology and (iv) literature, where it is called literary criticism; b. as a full course on one subfield of onomastics, for example Literary Criticism; or c. as a fully-fledged degree postgraduate programme on onomastics. Onomastics is dealt with not only in universities and other instittions of learning but also by special learned societies, in the form of, organizations, associations, committees etc. and publishing information or/and journals, for example: (3) Some learned societies for onomastic studies a. the American Name Society (ANS), publishing a journal known as A Journal of Onomastics; b. the English Place-Name Society (EPNS), publishing a journal known as The Journal of the English PlaceName Society; c. the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSBI), publishing a journal known as Nomina, a Latin noun meaning ‘names’, usually follows by ournal of the society for name studies in Britain and Ireland; d. the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN), publishing a bulletin known as Information Bulletin of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names e. the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), publishing a journal known as Onoma, a Ancient Greek word meaning ‘name’ and often followed by Journal of 71 Journal of Lexicography and Terminology, Volume 1, Issue 2 the International Council of Onomastic Sciences f. the Names Society of Southern Africa (NSSA), publishing a journal known as Nomina Africana: Journal of the Names Society of Southern Africa (also found: Nomina Africana: The Journal of African Onomastics), ‘’Nomina Africana’ being a Latin phrase meaning ‘African names’ g. the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (CSSN) (called in French la Société canadienne d’onomastique (SCO), publish a journal known as Onomastica Canadiana, a Latinized phrase meaning ‘Canadian onomastics’ 3. Semantic Typology Of Proper Names Proper names may be classified in many ways using different criteria, such as morphological criteria and semantic criteria. For any criterion, there exists no complete list of types of proper names for the simple reason that, in principle, anything can be given a a proper name. Thus, the semantic typology of proper nouns include, among others, (a) anthroponyms, proper names of people, for example John, Banda, Mwewa, Ivanov etc and (b) toponyms, or place names, for example names of villages, towns, countries, provinces etc, (c) names or bodies in the sense of organizations, associations, committees etc. A semantic typology of proper nouns may be provided using a cladogram, a type of tree diagram used to identify and classify organisms in biology. As an example, let us consider the vertical cladogram in Figure 1, which is not complete but only how cladistics can be used to classify nouns and where the term entity refers to anything that can be given or can bear a proper noun: 72 Journal of Lexicography and Terminology, Volume 1, Issue 2 Figure 1: An illustrative cladogram of nouns Proper Nouns (PNs) PNs of supernatural PNs of natural entities entities PNs of humans PNs of non-humans PNs of PN of PN of bodies PNs of PN of objects animals of water places events What Figure 1 says is that: (a) Proper nouns (PNs) are divided into (a) PNs of supernatural entities (gods, goddesses, angels etc) and (b) PNs of natural entities (people, animals, objects, events etc); (b) PNs of natural beings are divided into (a) PNs of humans and (b) PNs of non-humans; and (c) PNs of non-humans are divided into (a) PNs of objects (e.g.
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