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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Published in:	Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
Main Author:	Silvia Cacchiani
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2022-12-01
Subjects:	metonymy English fashion terms commercial names in fashion nominal constructs with proper name modifiers commemorative function
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/6872