<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times;"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><font size="3">Hello everyone,</font><br><br><font size="3">I'm really overwhelmed by your interesting findings concerning special grammatical treatment of proper names and I want to thank the contributors.</font><br><font size="3">Even though I haven't yet checked the literature in deep, I'd like to give a short summary of the replies: </font><br><br>C(ommon)N(oun)s, P(roper)N(ame)s</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br>- Dieri (South Australia) exhibits special case declension patterns for PNs (Peter Austin, 8)<br>- Articles and (female) PNs seem to have an interesting correlation in some German variations (Greville Corbett, 7)<br>- Noun classes or agreement-patterns in Bantu languages, and as an instance, Kirundi, are sensitive to the category of PNs (Mark Van de Velde, 6)<br>- Amazonian languages Banawá and Suruwahá show special phonological treatment of PNs and hypocoristics (concerning syllable structure) (Dan Everett, 5)<br>- Paul Hopper has already done work on the distinction between PNs, lexical nouns and pronouns in discourse, specifically regarding the S, A and P argument function. (4)<br>- In Adyghe and Kabardian (NW-Caucasian), PNs do not overtly mark S, A and P (and other grammatical functions), in contrast to definite/specific CNs and demonstrative pronouns. (Peter Arkadiev, 3)<br>- Meryam Mir, a Papuan language exhibits different alignment systems, with pronouns being marked NOM-ACC, CNs ERG-ABS, and PNs tripartite. (Matthew Dryer, 2)<br>- As to Araki (Vanuatu), PNs have a special transitivity and possession marking treatment. PNs (including person and place names) receive always systematic treatment X, CNs oscillate between X and Y, whereas treatment X is assigned to those CNs which are "more salient", "more highly individuated", "definite" and specific" (Alex Francois, 1)<br><br><font size="3">Including my own findings, the treatment of proper names in Mapudungun (South America) is astonishingly similar to the latter, mentioned by Alex. That means, where PNs receive always the mark -</font><i style="font-size: medium;">fi</i><font size="3"> (in object function), CN sometimes do, sometimes not, depending on their definite, specific, saliency or anaphoric status. The paper (my bachelor thesis) hasn't been reviewed yet, but if anybody is interested in, I'd gladly send it to you (no guarantee!).</font><br><br><font size="3">Please comment if something is wrong, and if you want to add something, make sure that you attach the existing summary to it.</font><br><br><font size="3">Thanks for your big help,</font><br><br><font size="3">With best regards,</font><br><font size="3">Lukas</font><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">__________________________(1)___________________________________________<br>dear Lukas,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Thanks for an interesting query.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">You may find something in my grammar of Araki, an Oceanic language of Vanuatu.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Here's the reference, including a link to a scan of the book:</div><ul style="font-size: medium;"><li><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"></div>François, Alexandre. 2002. <i><font color="#20124d"><b>Araki: A disappearing language of Vanuatu</b></font></i>. Pacific Linguistics, 522. Canberra: Australian National University. 375 pp.<font size="1"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;">[<a target="_blank" href="http://alex.francois.free.fr/AFpub_books_e.htm">access to a Pdf</a>]</div></font></font><br></li></ul><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Also on the language Araki, I recently wrote an article on the morphosyntax of ditransitive verbs:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium;"><ul><li><font face="georgia, serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"></div> François, Alexandre. 2012. Ditransitive alignment and referential hierarchies in Araki. In Eva van Lier (ed), <i>Referential Hierarchies in Three-participant Constructions</i>. Special issue of<i> Linguistic Discovery</i>, 10: 3 (Nov_2012). <font size="1"><div class="gmail_default" style="display: inline;"> [<a target="_blank" href="http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/document/918">access to a Pdf</a>]</div></font></font></li></ul></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">In both these documents, if you do a search on the string "proper noun", you will find various places showing that proper nouns have special treatment with respect to transitivity marking, possession marking, etc. This special treatment often means being cross-referenced by morphology normally used for highly salient human individuals. In a way this is not so spectacular for personal proper nouns, because a person designated with their name is presumably "salient" & highly individuated anyway; but it is at least nice to see this degree of saliency made formally explicit in the language, contrasting proper nouns with common nouns.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><blockquote style="font-size: medium; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">NB: as you will see, proper nouns don't always have a separate treatment from common nouns: rather, proper nouns receive systematic treatment X whereas common nouns typically oscillate between two treatments X and Y (where X is the treatment reserved to common nouns only if they refer to more salient, more highly individuated, definite and specific referents…)</div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">And then, what is perhaps more original is that the proper nouns referring to <i>places</i> (i.e. toponyms) behave the same, as highly individuated "human" nouns, by contrast with common nouns referring to places. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">See pp.97, 136, 141 of the grammar; or ex(44) vs (45) in the paper.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">I hope this is useful.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">good luck,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: medium; font-family: tahoma, sans-serif;">Alex<br><br><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">__________________________(2)___________________________________<br><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A language that treats proper nouns differently from common nouns is </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Meryam Mir, an Eastern Trans-Fly language spoken on islands between the </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">mainlands of Australia and Papua New Guinea but which belong politically </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">to Australia.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Meryam Mir is interesting in that it exhibits four different systems of </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">alignment within the same language. The case system for pronouns is </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">nominative-accusative, the case system for common nouns is </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">ergative-absolutive, and the case system for proper nouns is tripartite, </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">with an accusative case that does not occur with common nouns.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In addition, the head marking system on verbs can be described as split </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">intransitive.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Piper, N. (1989). A sketch grammar of Meryam Mer. Australian National </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">University.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(A version Piper’s thesis has recently been published by Lincom Europa; </span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I do not know if it differs from the thesis.)</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Matthew Dryer, Professor</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Department of Linguistics</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">616 Baldy Hall</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">University at Buffalo (SUNY)</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Buffalo NY 14260</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Phone: 716-645-0122</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> FAX: 716-645-3825</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">dryer@buffalo.edu</span></div><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">_________________________________________(3)________________________________________________<br>Dear Lukas,</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">in Circassian languages (Adyghe and Kabardian) proper names do not normally assume overt case-marking for S, A, P (and other grammatical functions), in contrast to both definite/specific common names and demonstrative pronouns, which are overtly case-marked in all these functions. This is described, inter alia, in the following book:</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Kumakhov, Mukhadin & Vamling, Karina (2009). Circassian Clause Structure. Malmö: Malmö University.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The book, as far as I know, is freely available in electronic form.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">With best wishes,</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Peter Arkadiev</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">______________________________________(4)____________________________________________________<br>Lukas,</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Some time ago I wrote a paper on discourse features of proper names,</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">comparing them to lexical nouns and pronouns. It can be downloaded from my</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Academia.edu pages (see below). This paper might be of interest to your</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">project, as it deals specifically with the S, A, and P coding of names.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Paul Hopper</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br>_______________________________________(5)_______________________________________________________<br>I assume Lukas is not interested in hypocoristics and distinct phonological treatment of proper names?</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Certainly these are part of the grammar, though not necessarily the morphosyntax.</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Dan</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a class="weblink" href="http://daneverettbooks.com/docs/wccfl16fin.pdf" target="browserView" style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">http://daneverettbooks.com/docs/wccfl16fin.pdf</a><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><a class="weblink" href="http://daneverettbooks.com/docs/suruwaha.pdf" target="browserView" style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">http://daneverettbooks.com/docs/suruwaha.pdf</a><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">______________________________________(6)___________________________________________________<br><br>Dear Lukas,</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">In several Bantu languages Proper Names are distinguished from Common</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Nouns by their agreement properties. When I presented my research on this</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">topic in Regensburg, my latest article was already submitted, but it took</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">some time to appear (see the attachment).</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Will you post a summary of the replies on the list?</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">All the best,</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mark</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Van de Velde, Mark (2009). Agreement as a grammatical criterion for proper</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">name status in Kirundi. In: Onoma 44: 219-241. (written in 2011, appeared</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">in January 2012)</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><font size="3">____________________________(7)______________________________________</font><br><font size="3">Dear Lukas</font><div style="font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-size: medium;">I saw your query on the Linguistic Typology list.</div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-size: medium;">Prof Damaris Nübling (<a target="_blank" href="mailto:nuebling@uni-mainz.de">nuebling@uni-mainz.de</a>) has interesting work on the use of articles with proper names (particularly of females), in different areas of Germany. There's more going on than you might imagine.</div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-size: medium;">Best wishes</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Greville Corbett</div><div style="font-size: medium;">____________________________(8)________________________________</div><br><br><br><font size="3">Dear Lukas</font><div style="font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-size: medium;">You will find interesting data in the Dieri (Diyari) language spoken in South Australia where personal names have special case declensions. The details are in my grammar of Diyari, available on Academia.edu.</div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-size: medium;">Best,</div><div style="font-size: medium;">Peter</div><div style="font-size: medium;"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Times;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 December 2013 09:56, Lukas Denk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lukas.Denk@stud.uni-regensburg.de" target="_blank">Lukas.Denk@stud.uni-regensburg.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Hello everyone,<br><br>We are looking for peculiarities of the grammatical coding of proper names compared to common nouns (and pronouns) in the languages of the world. In particular we are interested in proper names in S, A and P function and how they differ with regard to word order, case marking and agreement from the treatment of common nouns in a particular language. Are there such differences also in European languages?</span><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="font-size: small; font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is follow up research of a paper that we gave at the last ALT conference in Leipzig on the morphosyntactic coding of proper names and the Animacy Hierarchy.<br><br>I would thank you for any examples you can give,<br><br>Best wishes,<br>Lukas Denk (University of Regensburg)</span></div></blockquote></div></body></html>