Richard Coates
Richard Coates | |
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Born | 16 April 1949 | (age 75)
Nationality | English |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Historical linguistics Philology of northern and western European languages Onomastics, especially place-names, theory of names and naming |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Linguistics |
Institutions | University of the West of England, Bristol (previously at University of Sussex) |
Doctoral advisor | J. L. M. Trim |
Other academic advisors | Pieter A. M. Seuren, Erik C. Fudge, Roy A. Wisbey, Peter Rickard, Martin Harris |
Richard Coates (born 16 April 1949, in
His main academic interests are proper names (both from the historical and the theoretical perspective), historical linguistics in general, the philology of the Germanic, Romance and Celtic languages, regional variation in language, and local history. He is editor of the Survey of English Place-Names for Hampshire and was principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK), running from 2010 to 2016, of which Patrick Hanks was lead researcher.
He has written books on the names of the Channel Islands, the local place-names of St Kilda, Hampshire and Sussex, the dialect of Sussex, and, with Andrew Breeze, on Celtic place-names in England, as well as over 500 academic articles, notes, and collections on related topics. His main contribution to linguistic theory is The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood, set out in a number of articles since 2000.[1][2][3][4]
He is also the author of Word Structure, a students' introduction to
See also
Books, dissertations and selected other freestanding publications
1977 The status of rules in historical phonology. Doctoral dissertation 10301, University of Cambridge. [Unpublished.]
1987 (co-ed. with John Lyons, Margaret Deuchar and Gerald Gazdar) New horizons in linguistics 2. Harmondsworth: Pelican; pp. viii + 465 (
1988 Toponymic topics: essays on the early toponymy of the British Isles. Brighton: Younsmere Press; pp. v + 124 (
1989 The place-names of Hampshire. London: Batsford; pp. vii + 193 (
1990 The place-names of St Kilda: nomina hirtensia.
1991 The ancient and modern names of the Channel Islands: a linguistic history. Stamford: Paul Watkins; pp. xiv + 144 (
1992 (ed.) De A.B.C. psalms by Jim Cladpole (James Richards). Brighton: Younsmere Press; pp. 46 (
1993 Hampshire place-names. Southampton: Ensign Publications. Paperback edition of The place-names of Hampshire; pp. 193 (
1996–2007 (ed.) Locus focus: forum of the Sussex place-names net (7 vols, 14 issues).
1999 The place-names of West Thorney. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (supplementary series 1); pp. v + 64 (
1999 Word structure. London and New York: Routledge (Routledge Language Workbooks); pp. ix + 101 (
2000 (with
2006 (guest ed.) Name theory. Special issue of Onoma, vol. 41 (spine date 2006; appeared 2011); pp. 309 (
2007 The place-names of Hayling Island, Hampshire. [MS. of 1991. Web-publication; http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/staff_coates_r_hayling.doc; pp. 96.]
2010 A place-name history of the parishes of Rottingdean and Ovingdean in Sussex (including Woodingdean and Saltdean). Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (Regional series 2); pp. xviii + 222,
2010 The traditional dialect of Sussex: a history, description, selected texts, bibliography and discography. Lewes: Pomegranate Press; pp. 349. (
2016 (co-ed. with Patrick Hanks and Peter McClure) The Oxford dictionary of family names in the United Kingdom. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (
2017 Wilkins of Westbury and Redland: the life and writings of the Rev. Dr Henry John Wilkins (1865-1941). Bristol: Avon Local History Association pamphlet 24.
2017 Your city's place-names: Brighton and Hove. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society. (
2017 Your city's place-names: Bristol. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society. (
2018 (guest ed. with Katalin Reszegi) Onomastica Uralica 11. (
2019 Places, names and history in north-west Bristol: Shirehampton, Avonmouth and King’s Weston. Bristol: Bristol Centre for Linguistics, University of the West of England.
2019 Your city's place-names: Cambridge. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society.
2020 (co-ed. with Luisa Caiazzo and
2020 (guest co-ed. with Martyna Gibka) Explorations in literary onomastic theory. Special issue of Onoma, vol. 53 (spine date 2018; to appear 2020).
External links
- [1], University of the West of England: Richard Coates, where a list of his main recent publications can be found.