New papers. For handouts go directly to the webpage http://www.let.uu.nl/~Ora.Matushansky/personal/downloads.html A novel proposal about the syntax and compositional semantics of proper names, starting with the naming construction and finishing with proper names in argument positions. I argue that cross-linguistic syntax of the naming construction (Call me Al) requires that the proper name in it be a predicate relativized to a naming convention. This naming convention can be supplied either by the naming verb or by the context -- and it is the latter option that is used in argument positions. As a result, we obtain a compositional analysis of argument proper names as definite descriptions. http://www.let.uu.nl/~Ora.Matushansky/personal/Downloads/L&P.pdf I discuss Case assignment to predicates and demonstrate that to account for it, it is necessary to assume that a head can assign Case to its complement. I argue that this hypothesis, in combination with some standard Distributed Morphology assumptions, is sufficient to account for structural Case assignment as well, and the standard Case Theory becomes superfluous. http://www.let.uu.nl/~Ora.Matushansky/personal/Downloads/FDSL_6.5.pdf