Richard Coates
English linguist
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- Bachelors English Language and Literature University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Coates is an English linguist. He was Professor of Linguistics at the University of the West of England, Bristol, now emeritus. From 1977 to 2006 he taught at the University of Sussex, where he served as Professor of Linguistics and as Dean of the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences . From 1980 to 1989 he was assistant secretary and then secretary of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. He was honorary director of the Survey of English Place-Names from 2003 to 2019, having previously served as president of the English Place-Name Society which conducts the Survey, resuming this role in 2019. From 2002 to 2008, he was secretary of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, a body devoted to the promotion of the study of names, and elected as one of its two vice-presidents from 2011 to 2017. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1992 and of the Royal Society of Arts in 2001.
Richard Coates's Published Works
Published Works
- The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods (2012) (42)
- Pragmatic sources of analogical reformation (1987) (35)
- Properhood (2006) (33)
- A Strictly Millian Approach to the Definition of the Proper Name (2009) (24)
- Singular definite expressions with a unique denotatum and the limits of properhood (2000) (15)
- Celtic Voices, English Places: Studies of the Celtic Impact on Place-Names in England (2000) (14)
- The Place Names of Hampshire (1989) (13)
- Invisible Britons: the view from linguistics (2007) (13)
- Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (2011) (12)
- A New Explanation of the Name of London (1998) (9)
- Talking for Britain: A Journey Through the Nation’s Dialects: Simon Elmes (2008) (9)
- New light from old wicks: the progeny of Latin vicus (1999) (8)
- The significances of Celtic place-names in England (2002) (8)
- The genealogy of eagre ‘tidal surge in the river Trent’ (2007) (7)
- A Glimpse through a Dirty Window into an Unlit House:Names of Some North-West European Islands (2009) (6)
- Behind the dictionary-forms of Scandinavian elements in England (2006) (6)
- Family names of the United Kingdom (2014) (5)
- The place-names of St Kilda: nomina hirtensia (1990) (5)
- Verulamium: the Romano-British name of St Albans (2005) (4)
- Toponymic topics: essays on the early toponymy of the British Isles (1988) (4)
- Time in phonological representations (1980) (4)
- The Ancient and Modern Names of the Channel Islands: A Linguistic History (1991) (4)
- The pre-English name of Dorchester-on-Thames (2006) (4)
- The Scriptorium of the Mercian Rushworth Gloss: A Bilingual Perspective (1997) (4)
- Cogidubnus Revisited (2005) (4)
- A Personal Name Etymology and a Shakespearean Dramatic Motiv (1976) (4)
- Phonology and the Lexicon: A Case Study of Early English Forms in -gg- (1982) (4)
- Each p[ɚ]son does it th[εː] way: Rhoticity variation and the community grammar (2019) (4)
- Why Hungarian isn't as extrinsic as Vago thinks (1982) (4)
- Names and Historical Linguistics (2016) (4)
- The trap–bath split in Bristol English (2020) (4)
- The First American Placename in England: Pimlico (1995) (3)
- The Place-names of West Thorney (1999) (3)
- Four pre-English river names in and around Fenland: Chater, Granta, Nene and Welland (2005) (3)
- The Linguistic Status of the Wandlebury Giants (1978) (3)
- Stour and Blyth as English river-names (2006) (3)
- A toponomastic contribution to the linguistic prehistory of the British Isles (2012) (3)
- On the possibility of proper verbs (2016) (3)
- Fockynggroue in Bristol (2007) (3)
- Comprehensive renewal program addresses aging water and sewer infrastructure (2013) (3)
- Rethinking Romano-British *Corinium (2013) (3)
- A Solution to the 'Must Of' Problem. (1989) (3)
- Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid (2006) (3)
- Invisible Britons: the view from toponomastics (2007) (3)
- The Survey of English Place-Names (1999) (2)
- English and Celtic in contact (review) (2010) (2)
- Miami-Dade Embarks on a Condition Assessment Journey (2011) (2)
- 7. Steps towards characterizing Bristolian (2018) (2)
- The name of the Hwicce: a discussion (2013) (2)
- Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, Part 1: Algarkirk to Melton Ross (2008) (2)
- Onomastic lexicography (2016) (2)
- "Agricultural" compound terms and names in tun like Acton and Barton (2012) (2)
- Family names of the United Kingdom: A new research project in British anthroponomastics (2011) (2)
- Meaningfulness in literary naming within the framework of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) (2018) (1)
- Reservations on the origin of syllabic consonants (1981) (1)
- A place-name history of the parishes of Rottingdean and Ovingdean in Sussex (2010) (1)
- Railway Locomotive Names and Train Names (2016) (1)
- The Severn Sea Islands in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (2014) (1)
- Preparatory to A Dictionary of Sussex Place-Names: A,E,I,O,U (2017) (1)
- AFON YSTWYTH AND ONOMASTIC SOUND-CHANGE (2006) (1)
- Hampshire place-names. Southampton: Ensign Publications (1993) (1)
- Etymologica: Three mismatches with the goshawk (1978) (1)
- Linguistic aspects of literary name origination (2018) (1)
- Literary onomastic theory – An introduction (2018) (1)
- J. Foley, Foundations of theoretical phonology . (Cambridge studies in linguistics 20). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. xiii +151. (1979) (1)
- Biting the Bulut: a problematic Old English plant-name in the light of place-name evidence (2013) (1)
- The grammar of place-names in Scandinavian England: a preliminary commentary (2005) (1)
- Box in english place‐names (1999) (1)
- A FURTHER SNIPPET OF EVIDENCE FOR BRUNANBURH = BROMBOROUGH (1998) (1)
- The Name of the State of Maine: An Irish Perspective (2013) (1)
- Azure Mouse, Bloater Hill, Goose Puddings, and OneLand called the Cow: Continuity and conundrums inLincolnshire minor names (2007) (1)
- A concise theory of meaningfulness in literary naming within the framework of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (2015) (1)
- Middle English Badde and Related Puzzles (1988) (1)
- Miami-Dade Case Study: Managing and Minimizing Pipeline Outages Through the Use of Carbon Fiber (2012) (1)
- The trap – bath split in Bristol English (2020) (1)
- Beverley: a beaver's lodge place (2002) (1)
- A linguist's angle on the Star of Bethlehem (2008) (1)
- A New Early Source of Basque: The Willughby Glossary of 1664 (2006) (1)
- A brittonic solution of the second element in the place-names Presteigne and Kinsham (2006) (1)
- Accents, dialects and languages of the Bristol region: A bibliography (state of 5 January 2015) (2015) (1)
- A History of the English Language: Names (2006) (1)
- The place-names of Hampshire : based on the collection of the English Place-Name Society (1989) (1)
- Pyewacket: A Familiar Spirit of the Witchfinder General (2013) (1)
- Endonymic Place-Name Alternants and Their Cultural Significances (2012) (0)
- More on variation between initial c and g in English (1981) (0)
- Bristol vocabulary: A provisional list (2014) (0)
- ABSTRACTS FROM THE 3 IN TERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SHOULDER & ELBOW THERAPISTS (2010) (0)
- The name of the island of Annet, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall (2008) (0)
- Composite sheet and use thereof (1995) (0)
- The Sinodun Hills, Little Wittenham, Berkshire (2000) (0)
- Reflections on some major Lincolnshire place-names, part 2: Ness wapentake to Yarborough (2009) (0)
- M. Halle, J. Bresnan and G. A. Miller (eds.), Linguistic theory and psychological reality (1981) (0)
- A Gloss on ‘a nefando ambrone’ in the History of the Kings of Britain (1989) (0)
- Magiovinium, Dropshort Farm, near Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire (2015) (0)
- The Island Name Krk, Croatia, in its Mediterranean and European Context (2020) (0)
- Two measure-terms in gaelic and early modern scots (1989) (0)
- The Place-Name Atrobus Again: A Comment (2009) (0)
- Fran Colman, The grammar of names in Anglo-Saxon England: The linguistics and culture of the Old English onomasticon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 324. ISBN 9780198701675. (2020) (0)
- Some thoughts on the theoretical status of ethnonyms and demonyms (2021) (0)
- Thoughts on L'Ancresse, Guernsey (2000) (0)
- An Etymology for Campshed (2023) (0)
- Reviews (2012) (0)
- Obituary of Larry Trask (2004) (0)
- Edition of De A.B.C. psalms by Jim Cladpole (James Richards) (1992) (0)
- A Bibliography of Place-names in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight: With a Section on Hampshire Dialect (2nd Edition) (1992) (0)
- ON INFLECTION, VARIATION AND THE PARADIGM (1982) (0)
- Italian surnames in the Family Names of the United Kingdom project (2015) (0)
- On the theoretical possibility of proper verbs (2016) (0)
- Jean Aitchison, Linguistics (2nd ed.), (Teach Yourself books). London: English Universities Press, 1978. Pp.189. (1979) (0)
- The Thracian King’s Name Rhoimētalkēs, and an Alleged Sound-Change in Thracian (1978) (0)
- Reviews: The Society does not accept responsibility for opinions expressed by its contributors (2012) (0)
- The Place-Name Owermoigne, Dorset, England (1995) (0)
- The traditional dialect of Sussex: a historical guide, description, selected texts, bibliography and discography (2010) (0)
- Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic symbol guide . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Pp. xxx + 266. (1988) (0)
- ÆthelflÆd's fortification of weardburh (1998) (0)
- The history, linguistic status and potential of the term dramway (2022) (0)
- Three new elements in the minor toponymy of western Lindsey, Lincolnshire (2008) (0)
- Shorter contributions : Cogidubnus revisited (2005) (0)
- A Natural History of Proper Naming in the Context of Emerging MassProduction: The Case of British Railway Locomotives before 1846 (2009) (0)
- Word Origins... and How We Know Them by Anatoly Liberman (review) (2022) (0)
- Naming Shirehampton and the name Shirehampton (2015) (0)
- Nigel of Canterbury’s Surname(s) and a Specious Link with Guernsey (2017) (0)
- Analysing Older English: to þære fulan flóde . óf þære fulan flode (2011) (0)
- Goldhwite: An unrecognized middle english bird-name? (2007) (0)
- Obituary of John Field (2001) (0)
- The meaning of names: A response in defence of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (TPTP) addressed to Van Langendonck, Anderson, Colman and McClure (2017) (0)
- A Provincial Bibliography on Names in the Works of Shakespeare (1987) (0)
- Two lost place-names in the west Midlands: Gaia in Lichfield and The Gay in Shrewsbury (2018) (0)
- Memorabilia. The footnote (1998) (0)
- Bibliography of, and notes on, railways in Ceredigion (2017) (0)
- The origin of Roddon (2005) (0)
- The surname(s) Gooch, Gutch, Goodge, Goudge (2009) (0)
- Creswell Crags in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (2019) (0)
- An Unusual Source of Evidence for Dialect: The Sword Inscriptions of William Peachey (1999) (0)
- Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, part 2 Ness wapentake to Yarborough (2009) (0)
- The traditional dialect of Sussex (2010) (0)
- II English Language (1987) (0)
- S. Gal Language shift. Social determinants of linguistic change in bilingual Austria . New York: Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xii + 201. (1981) (0)
- Some Place-names of the Downland Fringe: Seven Sussex Essays of 1990 (1990) (0)
- John Kelly and John Local, Doing phonology . Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. vii + 286. (1990) (0)
- State of the art article PHONOLOGY (2008) (0)
- 1984 saw the production of two textbooks in phonology, an area sadly underprovisioned with really suitable books for students. The existing stock (2016) (0)
- Britons in Anglo-Saxon England: Invisible Britons: The View from Linguistics (2007) (0)
- Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945): A bibliography of his writings and a list of his buildings (2015) (0)
- Etruscan tular / Latin tellūs (1977) (0)
- Note on the Name of Jersey in Jérriais (1986) (0)
- A Possible Etymology for Aberdevine ‘Siskin’ (2011) (0)
- The Syntax of Old Norse. Jan Terje Faarlund, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, £55.00, ISBN 0 19 9 27110 0 (hardback) (2007) (0)
- Pipeline Infrastructure Renewal at Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (2012) (0)
- Ospar?an operator's perspective (2004) (0)
- The plural of singular-ing : an alternative application of OE-ingas (1997) (0)
- Bulking: a morpholexical act (1979) (0)
- Languages for life (1982) (0)
- Executive Committee Phone E-mail (2003) (0)
- Municipal Projects Leverage Funding Mechanisms for Future Needs (2014) (0)
- A Paston Letter of 1461 and ‘Coroumbr’, Yorkshire: the Flight of Henry VI After Towton (2020) (0)
- The Term wir-candel in MED (2014) (0)
- Popular books on English place-names — a serious issue in onomastics (2017) (0)
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