“Tum, tum, tum dee dum, Baby’s beating on his drum.” That’s a line I repeat at least three times a day at the moment — from Page 6 of the Little Golden Books classic Baby Listens. And usually, charmed ...

The philosophy of language has long engaged with questions concerning the nature, use, and interpretation of proper names. Central to this field are debates between referentialist and predicativist ...

Vol. 26, No. 5/6, Common Methodologies in Humanities Computing and Computational Linguistics (Dec., 1992), pp. 441-456 (16 pages) Proper Names (PNs) present a problem for the automatic processing and ...

While proper names in argument positions have received a lot of attention, this cannot be said about proper names in the naming construction, as in "Call me Al". I argue that in a number of more or ...

The Scrabble community was rocked Tuesday by widely exaggerated news that an imminent rule change would make it acceptable to play proper nouns. The reports sparked a glut of hang-wringing over the ...

The local church is small and placed for a reason. The first time a pastor ever made me cry out of frustration was when I was 18 years old and working as an intern at a megachurch. I proposed that I ...

Amelie Nothomb is a cult figure in Europe but little known stateside. Judging by The Book of Proper Names, her narrative style is oddly sparse—somewhere between fable-like simplicity and screenplay ...