[DCRM-L] Title and Statement of Responsibility Area

[David Woodruff]

1E8 a). First sentence reads: Qualifications such as initials indicating membership in societies, academic degrees, and statements of positions held may be omitted from the statement of responsibility, using the mark of omission, unless:
a)  the qualifications are grammatically inseparable
Why should it matter if qualifications are grammatically separable or not? In “John Smith of the Royal Society,” “of the Royal Society” is inseparable, but it can easily be dropped, leaving “John Smith.” DCRB has “unless a) the elements are necessary grammatically...” which may be getting at something slightly different. Perhaps cases were the author’s name is connected syntactically to the rest of the sentence through the words for the position held.