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Nativised, Playfully Aetiologised Literary Zoonyms, II: The Peccary. Phono-Semantic Matching of the Signifiers, and Goal-Driven Narrative Trajectories through Adam, Balaam, John Moore-Brabazon, and Rosenzweig’s Columbus, Whose Own Standard Associated Narratives Contribute to Narrative Subgoal Achievement

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In this second paper in a trilogy about zoonyms in a literary context, we consider such tales that take an extant zoonym (a loanword in current use), and “nativise” it by phono-semantic matching supported by a story to back it up. The names considered are peccary and tayassu, two synonyms.

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Nissan, E. (2014). Nativised, Playfully Aetiologised Literary Zoonyms, II: The Peccary. Phono-Semantic Matching of the Signifiers, and Goal-Driven Narrative Trajectories through Adam, Balaam, John Moore-Brabazon, and Rosenzweig’s Columbus, Whose Own Standard Associated Narratives Contribute to Narrative Subgoal Achievement. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds) Language, Culture, Computation. Computational Linguistics and Linguistics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8003. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45327-4_17

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