Syntactic Patterns of English and Polish Fixed Phrases with Proper Names

It goes without saying that in all human communities there are certain regular idiom-creating events called naming since people are named, places are named, sometimes certain individual animals, spirits, or vehicles are named.There are several formally prescribed ceremonial activities with relevance to naming, the details of which are of interest to philosophers, logicians, anthropologists and psychologists, but only occasionally to linguists 1 .Thus, Van Langendonck, classifying the works by Mill 2 , Frege 3 , Russell 4 , Searle 5 , Kripke 6 and others as (language) philosophical works, not as linguistic works, highlights the necessity of a linguistic approach to the study of proper names (onomastics) because "both onomasticians and linguists should be aware of Mgr ANNA DĄBROWSKA -doktorantka na Wydziale Nauk Humanistycznych KUL, Instytut Filologii Angielskiej, Katedra JĊzykoznawstwa Teoretycznego; adres do korespondencji: Katolicki