Piller, I. 1996. American Automobile Names. Essen, Germany: Blaue Eule.

This is my PhD thesis and I’m no longer as proud of it today as I was back in 1995 … my students have produced much better theses … It is a corpus‐based investigation into the formal and semantic properties of American automobile name as well as an inquiry into their role in culture and society. It’s written in English with a strong German “accent” …