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The term „proper name‟ belongs to the terminological apparatus of traditional grammar. Grammarians used to draw a twofold distinction between „proper‟ and „common‟ names, defining the former as those nouns that denote a person or a thing, in contrast to the latter that denotes a thing. Proper nouns, thus, have a unique reference, while common nouns have a general reference.i Many categories are listed under the larger set of proper names: personal names; geographical names, such as the names of countries, continents, states, cities, lakes, mountains; calendar names (festivals, months, and days of the week), and noun +common noun, such as: the river Thames, London University, etc. Syntactically speaking, determiners and number contrasts are not applicable to proper names as they are to common nouns.ii On the graphological level, the initial letter of a proper noun is always capitalized no matter where they occur in a sentence.

Proper Names , Social Identity , Shakespeare’s Richard , Typological Critique

2009

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