Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Morphosyntactic contrasts between proper names and common nouns: an introduction 1
5. Personal names versus common nouns 21
6. The definite article with personal names in Romance languages 51
7. River names 93
8. Proper names with and without definite articles: preliminary results 121
9. On personal names in construct states in Modern and Biblical Hebrew 155
10. Von Heidel- nach Bamberg, von Eng- nach Irland? ‘From Heidel- to Bamberg, from Engto Ireland?’ 175
11. D-marking on Basque personal names from a synchronic and diachronic perspective 205
12. On Special Onymic Grammar (SOG): Definiteness markers in Fijian and selected Austronesian languages 237