ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the order of proper noun and common noun, when co-occurring, correlates with the order of the genitive with respect to the N is recognized in Greenberg. The inadvertent reversal of the correlation on Greenberg's part was observed in Bennett also see Elisa Roma's comment in the Konstanz Universals Archive. It is in fact the case that many head-initial languages and head-final languages display a mirror-image order of the two. Consideration of the relative order of common noun and proper noun in SVO languages shows that they are not as homogeneous a group as one might think. Incidentally, proper nouns are possibly always specifiers of a common noun, whether overt or silent. The moral draws from a minute correlation pair is that reference to SVO languages as if they made up a consistent word order type may be seriously misguided.
