Dear fellow members of Smogon,
I wasn't quite sure where exactly I should ask my questions, so I eventually chose The Great Library, hoping you could help me with my issue.
I'm a student at a German university and I decided to write a linguistic term paper about the morphological structure of Pokémon names, meaning how Pokèmon names are created and of what actual words they consist; for example: 'Ivysaur' consists of the two words 'ivy' (plant) and 'saur' (Latin suffix for 'lizard').
Unfortunately, there are not many scientific articles about this issue and I wanted to ask you if you could help me here. The following questions are highly important to me:
I would be very grateful if you could help me with my research. I can upload my term paper to this website afterwards if you want so.
Best regards and thank you in anticipation
TalkingAboutTheWeather (diehard Pokémon fan for now more than 18 years)
I wasn't quite sure where exactly I should ask my questions, so I eventually chose The Great Library, hoping you could help me with my issue.
I'm a student at a German university and I decided to write a linguistic term paper about the morphological structure of Pokémon names, meaning how Pokèmon names are created and of what actual words they consist; for example: 'Ivysaur' consists of the two words 'ivy' (plant) and 'saur' (Latin suffix for 'lizard').
Unfortunately, there are not many scientific articles about this issue and I wanted to ask you if you could help me here. The following questions are highly important to me:
- Who/what institution invents the (English) Pokémon names?
- Is there an official source that can definitely prove the explanations for the Pokémon names (I've already looked on the official websites of Pokémon and Nintendo, but I couldn't find anything.)?
- Are there any authors who focused on Pokémon as a linguistic research object and, if so, what are the authors' and the articles' names?
I would be very grateful if you could help me with my research. I can upload my term paper to this website afterwards if you want so.
Best regards and thank you in anticipation
TalkingAboutTheWeather (diehard Pokémon fan for now more than 18 years)