John Mathieson Anderson Explained

John Mathieson Anderson, FBA (born 1941) is a British linguist and academic. He is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh.^[1] In the 1970s, Anderson revived the idea of localism, which is the linguistic theory that all grammatical cases, including syntactic cases, are based on a local meaning; however Anderson used a generative approach to the idea.^[2] Collaborating with Colin J. Ewen, he wrote the first detailed overview of the theory of dependency phonology in their 1987 work Principles of Dependency Phonology.^[3]

Notable works

• Book: Anderson, John M. . The substance of language. 2011. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-960831-7. Oxford; New York. English. 778891013.
• Book: Anderson, John M. . A notional theory of syntactic categories. 1997. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-58023-6. Cambridge; New York. English. 34746064.
• Web site: Principles of Dependency Phonology Phonetics and phonology. 2020-10-27. Cambridge University Press. en.
• Book: Anderson . John M. . . 1982 . John Benjamins B. V. . Amsterdam.
• Book: Anderson, John M.. The Grammar of Case: Towards a Localistic Theory. 1976-04-08. CUP Archive. 9780521080354. en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor John Anderson . The British Academy . 12 January 2019 . en.
2. Jean-Michel. Fortis. French National Centre for Scientific Research UMR 7597, Université Paris Diderot. On localism in the history of linguistics.
3. 10.1075/sl.13.2.17rev. Review of Anderson & Ewen (1987): Principles of dependency phonology. Studies in Language. 13. 2. László. Kálmán. 1989. 477–483.