Professor emeritus of Onomastics Richard Coates' Outputs (4)

Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid (2006)
Journal Article

A submitted article in an onomastics journal, accepted without major revision, whose main thesis is that the place-name Maiden Castle, recurrent in Scotland and England, has its immediate origin in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He transposed it f... Read More about Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid.

Properhood (2006)
Journal Article

A submitted theoretical article, accepted without major revision. The novel ideas presented have emerged from the author's historical studies of proper names conducted over many years. It consists firstly of a forcible restatement of J.S. Mill's view... Read More about Properhood.

Names (2006)
Book Chapter

Commissioned chapter in one-volume survey of the history of English. This is the first work ever to pull together the history of all major types of namegiving in English. It has an introductory section covering linguistic and philosophical aspects of... Read More about Names.

Behind the dictionary-forms of Scandinavian elements in England (2006)
Journal Article