| The chapters that follow deal with vocabulary, syntax, onomastics, phonology, English grammar and usage and, finally, literary language. |
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| For those who aren't interested at all, onomastics is the study of names and their origins. |
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| In the field of American Indian onomastics it is important to be able to date the creation or the earliest occurrence of a place name. |
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| Apart from linguistics and literature we also serve history, ethnology and onomastics. |
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| But sociologists and experts in onomastics, the study of names, said the diminishment of nicknames was not exclusive to famous athletes. |
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| Significant onomastics are part of the Ja-Bac team's stock in trade. |
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| In a looser usage, however, the term onomastics is used for personal names and their study, and the term toponymy is used for place-names and their study. |
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| Tolkien had a deep personal interest in onomastics, and particularly in recovering half-remembered myth by etymologizing proper names. |
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| The study of proper names is sometimes called onomastics or onomatology while a rigorous analysis of the semantics of proper names is a matter for philosophy of language. |
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