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Mit den hier zusammengefassten Überlegungen wird ein Problem aufgegriffen, das sich in der germanistisch-philologischen Fachdiskussion durchaus stellt, nämlich, ob es einen Unterschied zwischen Namen und Wörtern gibt. Dieser spiegelt sich etwa im Unterschied zwischen Namenbüchern einerseits und Wörterbüchern andererseits wieder. Hier wird weiter von der auf lexikalische beziehungsweise onomastische Eigenschaften konzentrierten Behandlung von Wörtern oder Namen jeweils auch eine eher enzyklopädische Darstellung der durch die Wörter oder Namen bezeichneten Phänomene unterschieden.
Complex common names such as Indian elephant or green tea denote a certain type of entity, viz. kinds. Moreover, those kinds are always subkinds of the kind denoted by their head noun. Establishing such subkinds is essentially the task of classifying modifiers that are a defining trait of endocentrically structured complex common names. Examining complex common names of different lexico-syntactic types(NN compounds, N+N syntagmas, NP/PP syntagmas, A+N syntagmas) and from different languages (particularly English, German and French) it can be shown that complex common names are subject to language- independent formal and semantic constraints. In particular, complex common names qualify as name-like expressions in that they tend to be deficient in terms of formal complexity and semantic compositionality.
The present study examines the dynamics of the kanji combinations that form common (or general) and proper nouns in Japanese. The following three results were obtained. First, the degree of distribution results from two similar processes which are based on a steady-state of birth-and-death processes with different birth and death rates, resulting in a positive negative binomial distribution with the proper nouns and in a positive Waring distribution with common nouns. Second, all rank-frequency distributions follow the negative hypergeometric distribution used very frequently in ranking problems. Third, the building of kanji compounds follows a dissortative strategy. The higher the outdegree of a kanji, the more it prefers kanji with lower indegrees. A linear dependence can be observed with common nouns, whereas the relationship between compounded kanji is rather curvilinear with proper nouns. The actual analytical expression is not yet known.