Język na muzycznych pograniczach. Wokół nazwy zespołu Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Language on the Musical Borderlands: On the Name of the Band Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Summary/Abstract: This article concerns different perspectives on the artiphonym Emerson, Lake & Palmer. This name, which at first glance seems ordinary and unoriginal, in fact surprises us with the richness of variants and a certain name-making potential. Although this naming scheme, quite rarely used in rock, would seem to make it impossible to change the line-up of the band, it turned out to be a starting point for the musicians and their associates to show great inventiveness in taking subsequent naming decisions. This article also draws attention to other issues related to musical onomastics, e.g. the scope of research and the adequacy of the term proposed for this sub-discipline, the delimitation of artiphonyms and titles of phonographic albums, eponymous relationships between proper names belonging to these categories and the tendency to create specific naming constellations (including other categories of musical onyms), as well as the various ways these onyms function in language. This reference to extensive research into the aetiology of musical onyms should become the starting point for an adequate and systematic lexicographical description.

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