From proper name to epithet: motivation and change in the fashion industry
The purpose of this paper is to investigate English terms and, more precisely, nominal constructs (Booij [2010]) with proper names as modifiers, in the changing history of fashion and customs. Starting on the assumption that proper names and common nouns form prototypical categories with fuzzy bound...
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| Main Author: | Silvia Cacchiani |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6872 |
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