Publications
Motschenbacher, Heiko. 2020. Corpus linguistic onomastics: A plea for a corpus-based investigation of names. Names 68 (2) : 88–103.
Motschenbacher, Heiko. 2020. Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A corpus-based study of definite article use with country names. Names 68 (1) : 1–16.
Pang, Kam-yiu S. 2010. Eponymy and life-narratives: The effect of foregrounding on proper names. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (5) : 1321–1349.
Pablé, Adrian. 2009. The ‘dialect myth’ and socio-onomastics. The names of the castles of Bellinzona in an integrational perspective. Language & Communication 29 (2) : 152–165.
De Clercq, Karen. 2008. Proper names used as Common Nouns in Belgian Dutch and German. Linguistics in the Netherlands 25 : 63–74.
Garde, Murray. 2008. Person reference, proper names and circumspection in Bininj Kunwok conversation. In Baker, Brett and Ilana Mushin, eds. Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages. (Studies in Language Companion Series 104). John Benjamins. pp. 203–232.
Gehweiler, Elke. 2008. From proper name to primary interjection: The case of gee! Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9 (1) : 71–88.
Koerner, E. F. K. 2008. Universal Index of Biographical Names in the Language Sciences. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 113). John Benjamins.
Bade, David. 2006. The Zheng He dilemma: Language identification and automatic indexing. Language & Communication 26 (2) : 193–199.
Wee, Lionel. 2006. The cultural basis of metaphor revisited. Pragmatics & Cognition 14 (1) : 111–128.
Antonopoulou, Eleni. 2004. Humor theory and translation research: Proper names in humorous discourse. Humor 17 (3) : 219–255.
Bjørge, Anne Kari. 2003. The explicitation of proper names in expository news texts. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 13 (1) : 115–138.
Schalkwyk, David. 2000. "What's in a name?": Derrida, apartheid, and the logic of the proper name. Language Sciences 23 (2) : 167–191.
Luchtenberg, Sigrid. 1998. Proper Names as a Target of Language Awareness. Language Awareness 7 (1) : 22–31.
Allerton, D.J. 1996. Proper names and definite descriptions with the same reference: A pragmatic choice for language users. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (5) : 621–633.
Rymes, Betsy. 1996. Naming as social practice: The case of Little Creeper from Diamond Street. Language in Society 25 (2) : 237–260.
Allerton, D.J. 1987. The linguistic and sociolinguistic status of proper names: What are they, and who do they belong to? Journal of Pragmatics 11 (1) : 61–92.