What is it about?
Names of persons (as well as other names types such as place names) can differ from other types of nouns in their grammatical properties. For instance, proper nouns cannot be combined with definite articles in a number of language (e.g. in English). This paper investigates the special grammar of person names is a world wide sample of languages.
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The grammatical behavior of names and the differences with respect to other nouns are poorly investigated. Especially comparative studies taking a global perspective are lacking. This paper broadens our understanding of these areas.
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This page is a summary of: Nominal category marking on personal names: A typological study of case and definiteness, Folia Linguistica, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/flin-2017-0017.
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