The 8th international conference on Names in the Economy took place in Mainz, June 25-27, 2026. At that conference, Manfred Sailer presented a talk on “The practice and the semantics of product naming of puppets: Names of ventriloquist dummies across languages.” In his talk, Manfred tried to use the domain of non-custom-made ventriloquist puppets to combine insights from product onomastics and formal semantics to model the special properties of product names.
Links:
- Names in the Economy VIII conference web site: https://romanistik.uni-mainz.de/nite-8/
- Abstract of Manfred’s presentation: https://www.english-linguistics.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/NIte8-Sailer-Abstract.pdf