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]

• Anderson, John M. (2011). The substance of language. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960831-7. OCLC 778891013.
• Anderson, John M. (1997). A notional theory of syntactic categories. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58023-6. OCLC 34746064.
• "Principles of Dependency Phonology | Phonetics and phonology". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
• Anderson, John M. (1982). Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers Dedicated to Angus McIntosh. Amsterdam: John Benjamins B. V.
• Anderson, John M. (8 April 1976). The Grammar of Case: Towards a Localistic Theory. CUP Archive. ISBN 9780521080354.