Proper Names versus Common Nouns : : Morphosyntactic Contrasts in the Languages of the World / / ed. by Javier Caro Reina, Johannes Helmbrecht.

Recent research has shown that proper names morphosyntactically differ from common nouns in many ways. However, little is known about the morphological and syntactic/distributional differences between proper names and common nouns in less known (Non)-Indo-European languages. This volume brings toget...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Studia Typologica [STTYP] : Beihefte / Supplements STUF - Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung / Language Typology and Universals , 29
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Morphosyntactic contrasts between proper names and common nouns: an introduction
  • Personal names versus common nouns
  • The definite article with personal names in Romance languages
  • River names
  • Proper names with and without definite articles: preliminary results
  • On personal names in construct states in Modern and Biblical Hebrew
  • Von Heidel- nach Bamberg, von Eng- nach Irland? ‘From Heidel- to Bamberg, from Engto Ireland?’
  • D-marking on Basque personal names from a synchronic and diachronic perspective
  • On Special Onymic Grammar (SOG): Definiteness markers in Fijian and selected Austronesian languages