Van Langendonck, Willy and Mark Van de Velde (2016). Names and Grammar. In: Hough, Carole (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Van de Velde, Mark and Odette Ambouroue. (2011). The grammar of Orungu proper names. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 23, 113-141.

Aspects of the grammar of proper names in the Gabonese Bantu language Orungu are described and tentatively explained, with special attention for agreement and definiteness marking. Proper names have a mixed agreement pattern that differs from that of the common nouns...

Van de Velde, Mark (2009). Agreement as a grammatical criterion for proper name status in Kirundi. In: Onoma 44: 219-241.

Van de Velde, Mark (2006). Multifunctional agreement patterns in Bantu and the possibility of genderless nouns. Linguistic Typology 10 (2): 183-221.

It is generally assumed that all nouns belong to a gender in gender languages and that this constitutes a fundamental difference between gender systems and systems of noun classifiers. An analysis of gender and agreement in the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton...

Van de Velde, Mark (2003). Proper Names and the so-called class 1a in Eton. Leuvense Bijdragen. 92 (3-4): 43-59.