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Intensional Transitives and Presuppositions
Crítica, 2008 My commentators point to respects in which the picture provided in Reference without Referents is incomplete. The picture provided no account of how sentences constructed from intensional verbs (like “John thought about Pegasus”) can be true when one of
R. M. Sainsbury
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Translating Family Names in Hungarian: A Diachronic Survey
Hungarian Cultural Studies, 2016 In our paper we focus on the translating practice and translatability of surnames used in Hungarian, from the problems of translating the immediate predecessors of surnames to the questions of translating surnames today.
Tamás Farkas, Mariann Slíz
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The Case For Casterbridge: Thomas Hardy As PlacenaDle Creator
Names, 1989 In common with other nineteenth-century English novelists, Thomas Hardy substituted fictional placenames for true ones in his writing. However, he did not merely devise names at random, but imaginatively created new names that were almost all ...
Adrian Room
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Sense and Serendipity: Some Ways Fiction Writers Choose Character Names
Names, 2011 In order to find out how and why authors choose names for characters, published sources were reviewed and semi-structured interviews were conducted with four authors of fictional works for children and adolescents: Shannon Hale, Brandon Mull, Michael O ...
Sharon Blackand Brad Wilcox
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Taxonomic etymology – in search of inspiration
ZooKeys, 2015 We present a review of the etymology of zoological taxonomic names with emphasis on the most unusual examples. The names were divided into several categories, starting from the most common – given after morphological features – through inspiration from ...
Piotr Jozwiak +2 more
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Translating African Names in Fiction
Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2009 In this paper, we study the sociocultural and ethnopragmatic significance of African names as used by the Yoruba and Izon of Nigeria and the Akan of Ghana.
Isaiah Bariki
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Fictional names and fictional discourse
, 2017 [eng] In this dissertation I present a critical study of fiction, focusing on the semantics of fictional names and fictional discourse. I am concerned with the issue of whether fictional names need to refer, and also with the related issue of whether fictional characters need to exist, in order to best account for our linguistic practices involving ...
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Plant Names in Constructed Worlds
RiCognizioniThis study investigates the extent to which plant names, coined within the context of fictional world-building, reflect the morphosyntactic and semantic-motivational structures characteristic of natural language phytonyms.
Alberto Ghia
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K povaze narativní fikce: diskuse s Mariánem Zouharem
Filosofický časopisThe article responds to Marián Zouhar’s review of the author’s book What Is the Story About (O čem se vypráví. Praha, Filosofia 2023). The author focuses on two of the reviewer’s objections: the first concerns the analysis of parafictional statements and
Koťátko, Petr
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