grammatical coding of proper names

Claire Bowern clairebowern at GMAIL.COM
Tue Dec 3 14:07:34 UTC 2013


Diyari (Karnic, Pama-Nyungan) has a separate conjugation for proper
names; see Austin 1981 (recently revised and online as
https://www.academia.edu/2491078/A_Grammar_of_Diyari_South_Australia)
Claire

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Everett, Daniel <DEVERETT at bentley.edu> wrote:
> I assume Lukas is not interested in hypocoristics and distinct phonological treatment of proper names?
>
> Certainly these are part of the grammar, though not necessarily the morphosyntax.
>
> Dan
>
> http://daneverettbooks.com/docs/wccfl16fin.pdf
>
> http://daneverettbooks.com/docs/suruwaha.pdf
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:05 AM, Mark Van de Velde <vandevelde at VJF.CNRS.FR> wrote:
>
>> Dear Lukas,
>> In several Bantu languages Proper Names are distinguished from Common
>> Nouns by their agreement properties. When I presented my research on this
>> topic in Regensburg, my latest article was already submitted, but it took
>> some time to appear (see the attachment).
>> Will you post a summary of the replies on the list?
>> All the best,
>> Mark
>>
>> Van de Velde, Mark (2009). Agreement as a grammatical criterion for proper
>> name status in Kirundi. In: Onoma 44: 219-241. (written in 2011, appeared
>> in January 2012)
>>
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I would thank you for any examples you can give,
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Lukas Denk (University of Regensburg)
>>>
>>
>>
>> -  -  -  -  -  -  -
>> Mark Van de Velde
>> C.N.R.S. - LLACAN
>> http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/pers/vandevelde/<van_de_Velde_ONOMA.pdf>



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