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- Recent Theses and Dissertations of Onomastic Interest
- Alderman, Derek Hilton. Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South: The Politics of (Re)naming Streets After Martin Luther King, Jr. Dissertation, U of Georgia,1998. “(Re)naming streets after King represents one of the most widespread...of the South’s new geographies of memory.”
- Clankie, Shawn Michael. On Brand Name Change: A Theory of Genericization. Dissertation, U of Hawaii,1999. “[G]enericization will occur in novel semantic classes..., the shorter the brand name in relation to the class-noun, the greater the likelihood for genericization, [and]...for a brand name to become generic there must be an association to a single product.”
- D’Cruz, Mark John. Names as Disguised Descriptions. Dissertation, Rutgers U, 1998. “[0]rdinary proper names such as ‘Aristotle’ might be satisfactorily viewed as ordinary definite descriptions in disguise.... [A]n ordinary proper name is a type of ‘dummy’ expression which does nothing.. .except await replacement by any one.. .of a range of co-denoting definite descriptions.”
- Hunt, Anne Jude. Talking About What Does Not Exist: A Semantics of Radical Reference Failure. Dissertation, U of Virginia, 1998. “[N]on-referring names, commonly thought to have no semantic content, do indeed have such content: sentences containing such names can have determinate truth conditions....”
- Lambert, Aaron. Proper Names. Thesis, Queen’s U, Kingston, 1997. [The solution to the problem of the meaning of proper names of Russell, Frege, Mill, Strawson and Kripke are explored and found inadequate].
- Meredig, John S. Russian Bird Names: A Linguistic Analysis. Dissertation, U of Illinois, Urbana, 1997. “[S]emantic categories contain names motivated by sound, appearance, behavior, habitat, temporal associations and affective and folkloric associations.... The process of univerbation...play[s] an important role in the [morphological] formation of Russian bird names.”
- Porter, Trevor. The Place-Names of Trinity Bay, Newfoundland: A Syntactic Analysis. Thesis, Memorial U of Newfoundland,1999. [Categorizes and discusses the grammatical patterns of the 102 community names collected].