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This study offers a cognitive linguistic account of a few remarkably innova-tive uses of proper names to denote units of measure in utterances related to current political issues in Poland, which are delivered with ironic, sarcastic or humorous intent (such as jachiry and ziemce). The novel words, which are all nonce-formations, are minor conversions. They occur preceded by numerals and are pluralised...
Although the primary function of a proper name (PN) is to uniquely identify an individual, it can also be used to make attributive comments on individuals other than the PN-referent, e.g., Singapore is the Manhattan of Asia. Grammatically, eponyms can exhibit pluralization, modification, and in/definiteness contrast. This paper is concerned with eponymy in English, including paragon names, eponymic...
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