This volume contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance field by philological investigation primary sources application cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions established scholars students early career researchers.

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...

Standard algorithms for attribute choice in the generation of referring expressions have little to say about the role of Proper Names in referring expressions. We discuss the implications of letting these algorithms produce Proper Names and expressions that have Proper Names as parts.

We propose several criteria to identify proper names in biomedical terminologies. Traditional, pattern-based methods that rely on the immediate context of a proper name are not applicable. However, the availability of translations of some terminologies supports methods based on invariant words instead. A combination of five criteria achieved 86% precision and 88% recall on the 16,401 word forms...

Starting from the observation that in German proper names can be determined by the indefinite article without apparently shedding their original referent, this paper presents a range of “nonstandard” uses of proper names, among them one we will call the “manifestation use”. It will be suggested that certain occurrences of proper names cannot be adequately analysed without assuming manifestation...

Identifying the occurrences of proper names in text and the entities they refer to can be a di cult task because of the manyto-manymapping between names and their referents. We analyze the types of ambiguity | structural and semantic | that make the discovery of proper names difcult in text, and describe the heuristics used to disambiguate names in Nominator, a fully-implemented module for prop...

Proper name anomia and proper name sparing are unusual disorders characterized by a selective inability, or sparing, to retrieve proper names as opposed to common names. They may eventually demonstrate that these two categories of names are independently processed in the brain at the semantic or lexical/orthographic level. Yet, differences in patient assessment make comparison between cases dif...