Richard Coates
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 219104 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Coates |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Coates |
| ASSINATURA | COATES R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the West of England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3175-4775 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Introduction to the Special Issue of Genealogy on Surnames
Giving personal names to individual children is a cultural universal [...]
The Alfred Health Covid Community Pathway (AHCCP)
Background: The second wave of Covid-19 in Victoria in July 2020 revealed health system vulnerabilities including access to primary care and community readiness to provide care in the home to large numbers of Covid-19 positive patients. The health system risked being overwhelmed, and patients risked deteriorating at home with unmet clinical and psychosocial needs. The requirement for isolation of positive cases necessitated a rapid switch to remo…
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain
Harry Parkin Over 43,000 entries ‘“What’s in a name?” Juliet asked as she and Romeo tried to puzzle their way around the troubling problem of their warring families. Well, plenty, the most detailed investigation into surnames in the UK and Ireland has found.’ Steven Morris, The Guardian (of The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland ) This new dictionary provides up-to date and authoritative explanations of family names found in…
Some thoughts on the theoretical status of ethnonyms and demonyms
In this paper I reflect on whether ethnonyms and demonyms can appropriately be considered proper names at all from the semantic perspective, and if so, on what basis. I believe the answer is yes, perhaps unsurprisingly, but there are troublesome conceptual tensions to overcome in the relation between logic and linguistics. Nevertheless an understanding of the difficulties can be constructive, and in this case it lead to a proposal for a terminolo…
A Paston Letter of 1461 and ‘Coroumbr’, Yorkshire
The first eight words of the title of this note duplicate those of the one by Andrew Breeze in a previous issue of Northern History.1 Dr Breeze identifies the hitherto mysterious place that achieve
The Island Name Krk, Croatia, in its Mediterranean and European Context
Krk is one of the two largest islands in the Adriatic archipelago of Croatia, along with Cres. Its name has been discussed most recently by Dubravka Ivšić Majić (Voprosy Onomastiki 16.1, 2019) in the context of an analysis of the survival of the pre-Slavic names of islands presently in Croatia that are recorded in medieval sources, which is based in part on her doctoral dissertation. However, Krk has apparently never been discussed in the wider p…
Each p[ɚ]son does it th[εː] way
This paper examines individual differences in constraints on linguistic variation in light of Labov's (2007) proposal that adult change (diffusion) disrupts systems of constraints and Tamminga, MacKenzie, and Embick's (2016) typology of constraints. It is shown that, in pooling data from multiple speakers, some of the complexity in structured community variation may be overlooked. Data on rhoticity from speakers of Bristol English are compared to…
Popular Books on English Place-Names — a Serious Issue in Onomastics
This article refl ects on a recent spate of books on English place-names produced by a nonprofessional writer, showing in considerable detail, for fi ve counties, in what ways these books are defi cient, and do not perform what ought to be the praiseworthy service of bringing the fruits of 90 years of academic research to an interested general audience. It also attempts an understanding of the reasons for this phenomenon. It is noted that toponym…
Railway Locomotive Names and Train Names
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Over 45,000 entries This huge new dictionary is the ultimate reference work on family names of the UK, covering English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and immigrant surnames. It includes every surname that currently has more than 100 bearers, and those that had more than 20 bearers in the 1881 census. Each entry contains lists of variant spellings of the name, an explanation of its origins (including the etymology), lists of early bearers show…
On the possibility of proper verbs
The quality of being proper is always presumed, for perfectly understandable reasons to do with its function in acts of reference, to be restricted to nouns or noun phrases. This article is an exploration of the idea that a defensible case can be made for the real, if often ephemeral, existence of proper verbs. Evidence is presented from four categories of usage, mainly in English, but also in French and Dutch
The name of the Hwicce
This article presents the evidence for the Anglo-Saxon ethnic name Hwicce borne by a people of the south-west Midlands, and reviews previous unsatisfactory attempts to explain it. It appears to be probably of British Celtic origin, and an etymology in two variants, consistent in etymological meaning with that of other early ethnonyms, is suggested
The Name of the State of Maine
The three current theories of the origin of the name of the American state of Maine are reviewed and rejected. The connection of the colonist Sir Ferdinando Gorges with Ireland is explored, and a possible origin is proposed in the circumstances of the Anglo-Irish wars of 1594–1603 and their impact on his thoughts and motives
Pyewacket
The name of a witch’s familiar, Pyewacket, was reported by the Witchfinder General of England, Matthew Hopkins, at the height of the witch persecution in the middle of the seventeenth century. It has eluded explanation so far. It is suggested that it derives from the name of a village presently in the State of Maine, and that it became known in England through family connections between Hopkins and the Governor of Massachusetts John Winthrop
Rethinking Romano-British *Corinium
It is suggested that the name generally accepted as the Romano-British name of Cirencester, * Corinium , the traditional spelling deriving from a Latin rendering of that in Ptolemy's Geography , is mistaken, and that for philologically sound reasons the authentic name is more likely to have been Cironium , as recorded in the Ravenna Cosmography
Onomastics
Onomastics is the branch of linguistics which studies proper names.
The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor
A recent workshop entitled "The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods" was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human Biology. This workshop was intended to foster a debate on questions related to the family names and to compare different multidisciplinary approaches involving geneticists, historians, geographers, so…
Britons in Anglo-Saxon England
Word Origins… and How We Know Them
The Syntax of Old Norse
Properhood
A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work comprehensively while PROPER is understood as a subcategory of linguistic units, whether of lexemes or phrases. Phrases of the type the old vicarage, which are potentially ambiguous with regard to properhood, e…
Prevalence, types and demographic features of child labour among school children in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: To determine the prevalence, types and demographic features of child labour among school children in Nigeria. METHODS: A cross-sectional interview study of 1675 randomly selected public primary and secondary school pupils aged 5 to less than 18 years was conducted in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria from October 1998 to September 1999. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of child labour was 64.5%: 68.6% among primar…
Cogidubnus Revisited
The purpose of this article is to address a philological point which is of greater complexity than has been assumed by previous writers on the topic, namely the possible emendation of a restored Romano-Celtic name in a famous inscription from Chichester, Sussex (TUB I.91J. This also requires the weighing-up of alternatives for its interpretation and for the emendation and interpretation of apparently related names in other sources. I conclude gua…
Singular definite expressions with a unique denotatum and the limits of properhood
The issue addressed is that of whether singular definite expressions with unique denotata, e.g. the zodiac, are proper names or not. These are analyzed as special cases of a class of expressions ambiguous between a proper and a common meaning, e.g. the w/West b/Bank. The ambiguity of this type is held to be a function of different modes of reference, grounded in different intentions of the speaker or hearer: onomastic reference, i.e. intension-fr…
Box in english place‐names
The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor
A recent workshop entitled "The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods" was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human Biology. This workshop was intended to foster a debate on questions related to the family names and to compare different multidisciplinary approaches involving geneticists, historians, geographers, so…
Properhood
A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work comprehensively while PROPER is understood as a subcategory of linguistic units, whether of lexemes or phrases. Phrases of the type the old vicarage, which are potentially ambiguous with regard to properhood, e…
Each p[ɚ]son does it th[εː] way
This paper examines individual differences in constraints on linguistic variation in light of Labov's (2007) proposal that adult change (diffusion) disrupts systems of constraints and Tamminga, MacKenzie, and Embick's (2016) typology of constraints. It is shown that, in pooling data from multiple speakers, some of the complexity in structured community variation may be overlooked. Data on rhoticity from speakers of Bristol English are compared to…
Cogidubnus Revisited
The purpose of this article is to address a philological point which is of greater complexity than has been assumed by previous writers on the topic, namely the possible emendation of a restored Romano-Celtic name in a famous inscription from Chichester, Sussex (TUB I.91J. This also requires the weighing-up of alternatives for its interpretation and for the emendation and interpretation of apparently related names in other sources. I conclude gua…
Pragmatic sources of analogical reformation
The topic of this discussion is analogical change of a particular sort, namely that where, pretheoretically, meaning seems to have had a role to play in determining the direction taken by the change. Analogy is an area of linguistic change of the highest theoretical interest. No analogical changes can take place without the involvement of ‘performance’ factors in general, including a perceiving human agent as one of these (cf. Vincent, 1974; Antt…
Time in phonological representations
A Provincial Bibliography on Names in the Works of Shakespeare
References Relevant background works on Shakespeare’s language Abbott, E.A. 1894. A Shakespearian grammar. London, etc.: Macmillan. [See paragraphs 22 and 469 on the syntax and prosody of names.] Brook, G.L. 1976. The language of Shakespeare. London: André Deutsch. [Especially on some points of pronunciation.) Calderwood, J.L. 1979. Elizabethan naming. In his Metadrama in Shakespeare’s Henriad. Berkeley: University of California Press. [On the un…
Why Hungarian isn't as extrinsic as Vago thinks
The industry of explaining away apparent cases of extrinsic rule-ordering in phonology has been in recession recently. Kenstowicz and Kisseberth, in a recent textbook (1979), make rather soothingly conservative noises about ordered-rule solutions. In this lull, during which (it is clear) ordered-rule solutions are still reckoned to be a possibility, Vago's claim (1977) to be able to substantiate such a position has gone unchallenged
The Linguistic Status of the Wandlebury Giants
IN the period 1954 to the early sixties, considerable attention was given to the discovery of alleged hill-figures at Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire. Much discussion took place between T. C. Lethbridge, the discoverer of the figures, and his critics. (For Lethbridge's account of their discovery and his rebuttals of criticism, see Lethbridge, 1936, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1962.) My purpose in this article is to examine the linguistic evidence used by Lethbr…
The Linguistic Status of the Wandlebury Giants
IN the period 1954 to the early sixties, considerable attention was given to the discovery of alleged hill-figures at Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire. Much discussion took place between T. C. Lethbridge, the discoverer of the figures, and his critics. (For Lethbridge's account of their discovery and his rebuttals of criticism, see Lethbridge, 1936, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1962.) My purpose in this article is to examine the linguistic evidence used by Lethbr…
Bulking
Time in phonological representations
Reservations on the origin of syllabic consonants
A universal concerning the origin of syllabic consonants is proposed by Bell, 1978: 165. This says that ‘the syllabicity of syllabic consonants never arises spontaneously from a marginal consonant, as far as I can ascertain. The source of syllabicity is always a vowel’. Certain apparently contradictory data in English ([elm] < elm ) are adduced, but following Dobson, 1968, Bell (167) assumes an intermediate stage with shwa (eləm). There is eviden…
Phonology
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Why Hungarian isn't as extrinsic as Vago thinks
The industry of explaining away apparent cases of extrinsic rule-ordering in phonology has been in recession recently. Kenstowicz and Kisseberth, in a recent textbook (1979), make rather soothingly conservative noises about ordered-rule solutions. In this lull, during which (it is clear) ordered-rule solutions are still reckoned to be a possibility, Vago's claim (1977) to be able to substantiate such a position has gone unchallenged
A Provincial Bibliography on Names in the Works of Shakespeare
References Relevant background works on Shakespeare’s language Abbott, E.A. 1894. A Shakespearian grammar. London, etc.: Macmillan. [See paragraphs 22 and 469 on the syntax and prosody of names.] Brook, G.L. 1976. The language of Shakespeare. London: André Deutsch. [Especially on some points of pronunciation.) Calderwood, J.L. 1979. Elizabethan naming. In his Metadrama in Shakespeare’s Henriad. Berkeley: University of California Press. [On the un…
Pragmatic sources of analogical reformation
The topic of this discussion is analogical change of a particular sort, namely that where, pretheoretically, meaning seems to have had a role to play in determining the direction taken by the change. Analogy is an area of linguistic change of the highest theoretical interest. No analogical changes can take place without the involvement of ‘performance’ factors in general, including a perceiving human agent as one of these (cf. Vincent, 1974; Antt…
Middle English Badde and Related Puzzles
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A Gloss on ‘a nefando ambrone’ in the History of the Kings of Britain
A Gloss on ‘a nefando ambrone’ in the History of the Kings of Britain." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 2(4), pp. 123–124
John Kelly and John Local, Doing phonology. Manchester
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The First American Placename in England
The London placename Pimlico, hitherto of obscure origin, is plausibly shown to have been copied from America and to be linked with Sir Walter Raleigh's abortive Roanoke settlements of the 1580s. Its place in the cultural contexts of Elizabethan Virginia and Jacobean north London is explored, and a possible alternative theory is shown, in fact, to reinforce the claim of an American origin
Box in english place‐names
Singular definite expressions with a unique denotatum and the limits of properhood
The issue addressed is that of whether singular definite expressions with unique denotata, e.g. the zodiac, are proper names or not. These are analyzed as special cases of a class of expressions ambiguous between a proper and a common meaning, e.g. the w/West b/Bank. The ambiguity of this type is held to be a function of different modes of reference, grounded in different intentions of the speaker or hearer: onomastic reference, i.e. intension-fr…
Prevalence, types and demographic features of child labour among school children in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: To determine the prevalence, types and demographic features of child labour among school children in Nigeria. METHODS: A cross-sectional interview study of 1675 randomly selected public primary and secondary school pupils aged 5 to less than 18 years was conducted in the Sagamu Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria from October 1998 to September 1999. RESULTS: The overall prevalence of child labour was 64.5%: 68.6% among primar…
Cogidubnus Revisited
The purpose of this article is to address a philological point which is of greater complexity than has been assumed by previous writers on the topic, namely the possible emendation of a restored Romano-Celtic name in a famous inscription from Chichester, Sussex (TUB I.91J. This also requires the weighing-up of alternatives for its interpretation and for the emendation and interpretation of apparently related names in other sources. I conclude gua…
Properhood
A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work comprehensively while PROPER is understood as a subcategory of linguistic units, whether of lexemes or phrases. Phrases of the type the old vicarage, which are potentially ambiguous with regard to properhood, e…
Word Origins… and How We Know Them
The Syntax of Old Norse
Britons in Anglo-Saxon England
Onomastics
Onomastics is the branch of linguistics which studies proper names.
The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor
A recent workshop entitled "The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods" was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human Biology. This workshop was intended to foster a debate on questions related to the family names and to compare different multidisciplinary approaches involving geneticists, historians, geographers, so…
The name of the Hwicce
This article presents the evidence for the Anglo-Saxon ethnic name Hwicce borne by a people of the south-west Midlands, and reviews previous unsatisfactory attempts to explain it. It appears to be probably of British Celtic origin, and an etymology in two variants, consistent in etymological meaning with that of other early ethnonyms, is suggested
The Name of the State of Maine
The three current theories of the origin of the name of the American state of Maine are reviewed and rejected. The connection of the colonist Sir Ferdinando Gorges with Ireland is explored, and a possible origin is proposed in the circumstances of the Anglo-Irish wars of 1594–1603 and their impact on his thoughts and motives
Pyewacket
The name of a witch’s familiar, Pyewacket, was reported by the Witchfinder General of England, Matthew Hopkins, at the height of the witch persecution in the middle of the seventeenth century. It has eluded explanation so far. It is suggested that it derives from the name of a village presently in the State of Maine, and that it became known in England through family connections between Hopkins and the Governor of Massachusetts John Winthrop
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