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This paper addresses the issue of Modern Greek proper names, within the framework of Construction Grammar. More specifically, proper noun headed nominal constructions will be the focus of attention. Unlike earlier accounts that view common and proper nouns as grammatically, semantically and functionally distinct from each other, the present investigation provides evidence for constructional properties these categories have in common. It will be shown that in Modern Greek a proper noun as head of a nominal construction unifies with determiners and adjectives in the same way that common nouns do. Moreover, like common nouns, proper noun heads activate semantic frames associated with particular categories of entities (e.g. persons, cities, cars, etc.). Additionally, proper noun frames are contextually rich. More specifically, the use of a proper noun activates a frame which is so rich in information specificity that in this frame the name identifies a unique referent. This referent can provide metonymic access to various aspects of the frame when the proper noun is the head of a nominal construction. Significantly, metonymic uses of proper nouns in indefinite constructions, varying in degree of conventionality, are often associated with a subjective viewpoint and rate high in expressivity. Apparently, the findings of this study argue for a holistic, constructional approach to proper names and a frame-based analysis of their use. The present corpus-based analysis adopts a Construction Grammar 1 I am greatly indebted to the Dept. of English Language and Literature of the Univ. of Thessaloniki and the organizing committee of ISTAL20 for inviting me to give a plenary talk at the conference. This paper has benefited from several participants’ comments, questions, and suggestions and especially from a long discussion with Joseph Emonds. All shortcomings are, of course, my own. Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/22/19 9:02 PM Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 6 8 Invited Papers framework and notation after Fried & Östman (2004) to highlight inheritance relations and unification principles among the relevant constructions. Moreover, the investigation makes reference to mental space theory and conceptual blends as in Fauconnier (1997) and the concept of frame-metonymy as in Sweetser and Fauconnier (1996). Therefore, the present work argues for a usage-based perspective on language and a principled exploration of its cognitive, cultural, and constructional motivations.

Towards a Constructional Account of Indefinite Uses of Proper Names in Modern Greek