ASPECTS OF THE GRAMMAR OF NAMES

ASPECTS OF THE GRAMMAR OF NAMES

EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES AND THEORITICAL TOPICS

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The articles of this volume contribute to the research of the grammar of names, a newly established and constantly growing linguistic field. Concentrating on two onymic categories, viz. person names (anthroponyms) and place names (toponyms), the five studies give insights into several aspects of the grammar of names, e.g. the position of onyms in the grammar system of a given language, morphosyntactic distinctive features of names, or the use of articles with onyms. The empirical evidence (synchronic as well as diachronic language data) for these studies comes primarily from Austronesian, Siouan, and Romance languages. Two in-depth studies on anthroponyms in a Siouan language spoken in North America and toponyms in an Austronesian language of Micronesia, respectively, are framed by comparative and typological surveys. By providing insight into the grammar of names both of individual languages and from a typological perspective, it is shown that onyms do not always share the same features as common nouns, although they are often treated as a subcategory of these. This volume thus contributes to the discussion on whether onyms can be subsumed under the same notion as common nouns or rather comprise a category on their own. Johannes Helmbrecht: Form and function of personal names:Dimensions of the morphosyntactic diversity - Javier Caro Reina: The definite article with place names in Romance languages - Thomas Stolz: Is there anything wrong with iya? On morphosyntactic issues connected to place names in Chamorro - Johannes Helmbrecht: On the morphosyntax of personal names in Hoocak (Sioux) - Thomas Stolz and Nataliya Levkovych: Grammatical versus onymic classifiers: First thoughts about a potentially interesting topic.