Proper Names versus Common Nouns

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Proper Names versus Common Nouns is written by Javier Caro Reina and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 311067274X (ISBN 10) and 9783110672749 (ISBN 13).

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 together contributions which explore morphosyntactic phenomena such as case marking, gender assignment rules, definiteness marking, and possessive constructions from a synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspective. The languages surveyed include Austronesian languages, Basque, English, German, Hebrew, and Romance languages. The volume contributes to a better understanding not only of the contrasts between proper names and common nouns, but also of formal contrasts between different proper name classes such as personal names, place names, and others.