[Crm-sig] Language of non-Title Appellations?

[Robert Sanderson]

Dear all,

Is there a reason why only Titles are also Linguistic Objects?

The examples of Appellation:
   "the Forth Bridge"
 "the Merchant of Venice" (E35)
 "Spigelia marilandica (L.) L." [not the species, just the name]
 "information science" [not the science itself, but the name through which we 
refer to it in an English-speaking context]
 “安” [Chinese “an”, meaning “peace”]

All of these Appellations are in a language (English, Latin, and Chinese) but 
only “The Merchant of Venice” can have its language explicitly declared, as 
Titles are also Linguistic Objects.

If Appellation was a subclass of Linguistic Object (as a descendent of Symbolic 
Object) then this issue would go away. And also make Title just a P2 of 
Appellation, rather than a special case.

Alternatively, Title could be re-described to cover all Appellations with 
language, whereas E41 would be for Appellations like identifiers that do not 
have linguistic content.

Rob