Table of Contents

1: Introduction
Part I: On Names
2: Names as words
3: Names are not nouns
4: A name is a name
Part II: Towards the Old English Onomasticon
5: Old English personal-name formation
6: General lexical formation
7: Structures of Old English personal names
8: On the role of the paradigm as a marker of lexical formation
9: An Old English onomasticon

About the Author

Retired as Reader in English Language at the University of Edinburgh in 2002, Fran Colman continues to research and lecture on the structure and history of the English language, notably on the names and coinage of Anglo-Saxon England. She has been an invited lecturer at universities and learned societies in Australia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Scotland, Spain. Her previous publications include Money Talks: Reconstructing Old
English (de Gruyter Mouton, 1992), Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: Royal Coin Cabinet Stockholm. Part V: Anglo-Saxon Coins: Edward the Confessor and Harold II, 1042-1066 (published for the British Academy by
OUP and Spink and Son Ltd., 2007) and, as editor, Evidence for Old English (John Donald, 1992).