Proper names have been widely studied from a philosophical and a linguistic perspective (Frege, 1892; Russell, 1905; Strawson, 1950; Searle, 1958; Donnellan, 1970; Kripke, 1980; Soames, 2002; Elbourne, 2005; Fara, 2015; Matushansky, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2015, among others). Over the last decades, they have become an important subject of investigation with respect to the semantics of reference and the syntax of the nominal phrase and, more specifically, to the different types of determiners and modifiers they can combine with, such as indefinite and definite articles (von Heusinger & Wespel, 2007; Gomeshi & Massam, 2009; Bernstein et al., 2019; Camacho, 2019; Saab, 2021; Oggiani & Aguilar-Guevara, forthcoming), honorific particles (Saab, 2021), and adjectives (Sigurdsson, 2006; Bernstein et al., 2019). There is also a growing interest in the cross-linguistic perspective (see Handschuh & Dammel, 2019; Levkovych & Nintemann, 2019; Caro Reina, 2020, 2022; Becker, 2021; Caro Reina & Helmbrecht, 2022, among others).
In this context, the research project “Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers in a Cross-linguistic Perspective” aims to contribute to this discussion by bringing together researchers working on proper names with determiners and/or means of modification from a morphological, syntactic, semantic, or pragmatic perspective. The second event of this research group will be the workshop “Non-Bare Proper Names II: Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers in Cross-Linguistic Perspective.” The second edition of this workshop will take place in Mexico City, Mexico, in March 2025. A previous edition of this workshop took place at the University of Cologne on May 16–17, 2024. A third edition of the workshop will take place in Uruguay.
Photos by María Paula Martínez Jáuregui