This contribution presents a linguistic analysis of brand names and industrial products researched as a group of proper nouns signifying objects. The process of change which is demonstrated through the changes at various linguistic levels, at different stages – until the transition from proper to common nouns is reached. The presentation of generic names is researched in the dictionaries from the second half of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on the deficiencies of the actual codifications.
This contribution discusses the problems of writing syntagms comprising adjectives, derived from proper nouns, ending on the suffixes ov/-ev and –in, when they occur as a part of regular idioms or phrases. The current orthographic manual writes these syntagms as doubles; however, in this contribution it is pointed out that all the parameters which may influence the writing of these syntagms have to be examined anew.
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