The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming - Paperbackby Carole Hough (Editor) In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up to date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the