John M Anderson

Biographic Data

ID822172
NAMEJohn M Anderson
GIVEN NAMESJohn M
FAMILY NAMEAnderson
SIGNATUREANDERSON J M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0002-0306-032X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1942
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • The non-grammaticality of phonetics

    Open AccessJohn M Anderson, John AndersonARTICLEFolia Linguistica2026

    Here I observe that the grammatical system that constitutes our knowledge of language and formulates how syntactic and phonological structures may be constructed on the basis of context and the categories and their colligational information stored in the lexicon of signs does not contain a phonetic level. Indeed, what phonetics describes does not contribute to this grammatical system, but belongs to an interface where it implements phonological s…

  • Structures

    John M AndersonBOOKStructures2021

  • The Grammar of Figurativeness, with Illustrations Drawn from English

    John M Anderson, John AndersonARTICLEEnglish Studies2014

    This paper looks at the linguistic status of traditional figurative phenomena, and classifies these in terms of how they are effected linguistically. Different figurative types—tropes, schemes, figures of speech—are articulated by different aspects of linguistic structure. Some involve lexical structure, some syntactic, some phonological and some involve pragmatics. It is suggested that their classification and their individual characters arise n…

  • Substance, structural analogy, and universals

    John M Anderson, John AndersonARTICLELanguage Sciences2013References: 5

  • Finiteness, mood, and morphosyntax

    Open AccessJohn M AndersonARTICLEJournal of Linguistics2007Cited by: 2

    The approach adopted here identifies finiteness with the capacity to license an independent predication. The prototypical independent predication is positive and declarative; other ‘moods’, or main-clause types, while finite, may fail to display the morphosyntactic properties associated with this prototype. These properties vary from language to language, but the recurrent core properties are verbal, since the verb is the prototypical predicator.…

  • Structural analogy and universal grammar

    Open AccessJohn M AndersonARTICLELingua2006Cited by: 8References: 34

  • Structuralism and Autonomy

    John M AndersonARTICLEHistoriographia Linguistica2005Cited by: 2References: 29

    Structuralism sought to introduce various kinds of autonomy into the study of language, including the autonomy of that study itself. The basis for this was the insistence on categorial autonomy, whereby categories are identified language-internally (whether in a particular language or in language generally). In relation to phonology, categorial autonomy has generally been tempered by grounding: the categories correlate (at least prototypically) w…

  • On the Grammatical Status of Names

    Open AccessJohn M AndersonARTICLELanguage2004Cited by: 4

    This article focuses on the relatively neglected grammar of names, including their morphosyntax, which has not aroused the kind of interest and controversy associated with the (putative) semantics of names. It also focuses on a few Indo-European languages (French, Greek, and particularly English), but refers to a wider range of language types. While not an exhaustive account of the variations in name syntax and morphology, significant variation i…

  • The orthography and phonology of the Ormulum

    Open AccessJohn M Anderson, John Anderson et al.ARTICLEEnglish Language and Linguistics1999

    This paper investigates all aspects of the orthography of the Ormulum in relation to the phonology of the late twelfth-century south Lincolnshire dialect which Orm's spelling system was designed to reflect. We show that Orm's adaptations of what he found in existing orthographic systems provided a set of graphic symbols that was fully capable of representing phonological contrasts in the vocabulary of the dialect and which thus in many respects r…

  • Gender and Truthfulness in Daily Life Situations

    Open AccessKelly A Robinson, Loraine K Obler et al.ARTICLESex Roles1998Cited by: 1References: 5

  • A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories

    Michael A Covington, John M AndersonARTICLELanguage1998

    Preface List of abbreviations Part I. Prelude: 1. Notionalism 2. Analogism 3. Minimalism Part II. Fundamentals of a Notional Theory: 4. Syntactic categories and notional features 5. Relations between elements 6. Further categories: the role of feature dependencies 7. Markedness and category continuity 8. Cross-classification 9. Gradience and second-order categories 10. Secondary categories 11. Non-complements Part III. The Syntax of Categories: 1…

  • Remarks on the Structure and Development of the Have Perfect

    John M AndersonARTICLEFolia Linguistica Historica1997

    Bien que l'emploi du participe 1 e r (ou participe present) en anglais soit positivement oppose a toutes les periphrases contenant des participes 2 n ds (parfait et passif), le participe 2 n d (ou participe passe) ne semble pas avoir un contenu unitaire. En supposant que ces periphrases verbales se sont developpees historiquement a partir de formations deverbales, et plus particulierement a partir de formations adjectivales, l'A. tente ici d'expl…

  • Notional Grammar and the Redundancy of Syntax

    John M AndersonARTICLEStudies in Language1991

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  • On the status of auxiliaries in notional grammar

    Open AccessJ Anderson, John M AndersonARTICLEJournal of Linguistics1990References: 10

    The major assumption of notional grammar is that the syntactic classes established for each language on the basis of their distributional properties are labelled on notional grounds: the denotata of the prototypical members of classes meet universal ontological definitions. For example, one might suggest that: ‘As far as nouns are concerned, the prototypical denotata are persons, animals, and other discrete physical entities...’ (Lyons, 1989: 161…

  • More on slips and syllable structure

    Open AccessJohn M Anderson, John AndersonARTICLEPhonology1988

    Shattuck-Hufnagel (1986) (henceforth S-H), in discussing the significance of ‘slips of the tongue’ for a model of processing, is particularly concerned with attempting to establish to what extent some of the constructs posited by phonologists in their characterisations of phonological structure can be shown to have a role in the planning of speech production. On the basis of the ‘MIT corpus’ of errors (collected by Merrill Garrett and herself), p…

  • The State of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo

    Open AccessWilliam L Graf, David J Eaton et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1988

  • Structural analogy and case grammar

    Open AccessJohn M Anderson, John AndersonARTICLELingua1986Cited by: 5References: 33

  • The Status of Voiced Fricatives in Old English

    John M AndersonARTICLEFolia Linguistica Historica1985

  • A Garland of Tributes

    Raven I Mcdavid, John M Anderson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1984

  • Language form and linguistic variation

    Angus Mcintosh, John M Anderson et al.BOOKLanguage form and linguistic…1982

  • The Cognitive representation of speech

    John Laver, John M AndersonBOOKThe Cognitive representation of…1981

  • On Case Grammar

    Stanley Starosta, John M AndersonARTICLELanguage1981

  • On the Internal Structure of Phonological Segments

    John M AndersonARTICLEFolia Linguistica Historica1980

  • Historical Linguistics I syntax, morphology, internal and comparative reconstruction

    Charles Jones, John M Anderson

  • Old English Phonology

    Roger Lass, John M Anderson

    List of abbreviations Preface Preliminaries: The Feature Framework 1. 'Ablaut' in the Old English strong verb 2. The Anglo-Frisian brightening 3. Two processes of vowel epenthesis: breaking and back umlaut 4. Palatalisation and I-umlaut 5. Strengthening and weakening of obstruents: fricative voicing assignment, continuancy adjustment, and some related processes 6. Epilogue: historical implications: the phonological inventories: some afterthoughts…