Morphosyntactic contrasts between proper names and common nouns: an introduction

Introduction: Proper names and the lexicon – an exposition

“…Proper names have already been the subject of a large number of publications, which have considered them from different angles: their meaning, their reference and their grammar / syntax (Algeo [1973]; Kripke [1980]; Kleiber [1981]; Gary-Prieur [1994]; Jonasson [1994]; Leroy [2001]; Vaxelaire [2001]; Van Langendonck [2007]; Matushansky [2008]; Laurent [2010]). Beyond French and English, the two languages studied in this issue, proper names have enjoyed a renewed interest in typological studies, especially dealing with their morphosyntax (Ackermann & Schlücker [2017]; Dammel & Handschuh [2019]; Caro Reina & Helmbrecht [2022]). This issue of Lexis seeks to address the place of proper names in the lexicon: are they part of the lexicon -which lexicon?…”