THE PHENOMENON OF PROPER NAMES

Proper names--Zurich plethora.

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The Predicate View of Proper Names

The Millian view that the meaning of a proper name is simply its referent has long been popular among philosophers of language. It might even be deemed the orthodox view, despite its well-known difficulties. Fregean and Russellian alternatives, though widely discussed, are much less popular. The Predicate View has not even been taken seriously, at least until fairly recently, but finally, it is...

On the linguistic complexity of proper names

Searching Proper Names in Databases

Identifying names — e.g., author names or company names — is still an open problem. In this paper we review known similarity measures. These measures deal with phonetic similarity, typing errors and plain string similarity. We show experimentally that all three approaches lead to significant better retrieval quality than plain identity. Furthermore, we demonstrate that combinations of different...

Proper Names and Linguistic Dynamics

Pragmatics is the study of how people exchange meanings through the use of language. In this paper we describe our experience with regard to texts belonging to a large contemporary corpus of written language, in order to verify the uses, changes and flexibility of the meaning of Proper Names (PN). As a matter of fact, while building the lexical semantic database ItalWordNet (IWN), a considerabl...