Universal #1325

Legacy number: 1325

 Number  1321
 Original  Every human language has proper names.
 Standardized  Every human language has proper names.
 Keywords  proper name
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  unspecified
 Source  Hockett 1963: 21

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Proper names for what? Persons, things, places, periods, ...?And how do proper names differ from common nouns grammatically? Any universals in this respect?
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Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Proper names for what? Persons, things, places, periods, ...? And how do proper names differ from common nouns grammatically? Any universals in this respect?