This article is subjected to studying the scientific literature on the study of proper names and to determine the principles of categorization of words.   Despite the fact that different disciplines have addressed their own questions, the central question about proper names is how to delimit and characterize the class itself, and in this article, these matters are illustrated with relative examples.

Proper names, proper nouns, homogeneous

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