Proper Names In the Light of Theoretical Onomastics (Part I)
Proper Names In the Light of Theoretical Onomastics (Part I)

Summary/Abstract: Two opposing but interrelated tendencies are typical of the position of proper names - a continuous interaction of proper names with other vocabulary and the whole language system and, simultaneously, a continuous polarization of the category of proper names in relation to appellatives. From this binary interrelationship of proper names follows the binary status of the category nomen proprium. The proper name is a bilateral linguistic sign sui generis. Its content aspects consist of two components. At the system level hierarchical set of supra-individual onymically relevant features of a name forms its onymic meaning (presuppositional identification). In text and in speech, a proper name refers to an individual oymic object (reference identification).

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