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A Proprial article or proprial determiner is a determiner that modifies proper nouns, especially personal names. They are seperate from honorifics used to refer to or address a person, as they may or may not imply anything about the interpersonal relationship between the addressee and speaker. They are common crosslinguistically, and can be found in various language families, including Indo-European (markedly the Germanic languages and some Romance languages), Austronesian and

Usage
Proprial articles are common crosslinguistically, but are often considered informal and non-standard in many official languages, and are often confined to vernacular or dialectal speech. They are rarely used outside of determiner phrases in argument position.

Germanic languages
Proprial articles are used extensively in Germanic languages, in varying degrees of

Low German varieties found in Northern Germany use definite articles before given names and surnamess. This is presumed to have started in Early New High German, around the 13-1600s.

Useful sources

 * ADJECTIVES AND PROPER NOUNS IN ROMANCE AND ENGLISH by Ion Giurgea
 * Modern Portuguese: A reference grammar by Perini Mário
 * The proprial article and the semantics of names by Patrick Muñoz
 * Elvis Presley, God and Jane: the Germanicproprial article in a comparative perspective by Joachim Kokkelmans
 * Der Gebrauch des Definitartikels vor Familien- und Rufnamen im Frühneuhochdeutschen aus grammatikalisierungstheoretischer Perspektive by MIRJAM SCHMUCK/RENATA SZCZEPANIAK
 * The morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names in German by Dorian Roehrs
 * Pronomen und Korrektur: Zur Pragmalinguistik der persönlichen Referenzformen by Günter Bellmann
 * The Left Periphery of the German Noun Phrase by Dorian Roehrs
 * On Proper Names in St’át’imcets by Henry Davis
 * Distinct marking of common and proper nouns in Oceanic (and beyond): Synchronic variation in from and function and historical implications by Corinna Handschuh
 * Morphological variation and development in a Northern Norwegian role play register by Bror-Magnus S. Strand
 * The dynamics of gender complexity by Francesca di Garbo
 * Dialektsyntaktiska studier av den nordiska nominalfrasen by Lars-Olof Delsing et al
 * Adjectival and Genitival Modification in Definite Noun Phrases in Icelandic: A Tale of Outsiders and Inside Jobs by Alexander Peter Pfaff
 * Proprial articles by Janne Bondi Hoannessen and Piotr Garbacz