Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Morphosyntactic contrasts between proper names and common nouns: an introduction -- Personal names versus common nouns -- The definite article with personal names in Romance languages -- River names -- Proper names with and without definite articles: preliminary results -- On personal names in construct states in Modern and Biblical Hebrew -- Von Heidel- nach Bamberg, von Eng- nach Irland? 'From Heidel- to Bamberg, from Engto Ireland?' -- D-marking on Basque personal names from a synchronic and diachronic perspective -- On Special Onymic Grammar (SOG): Definiteness markers in Fijian and selected Austronesian languages