Professor emeritus of Onomastics Richard Coates' Outputs (31)

Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood (2011)
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In several recent papers (Coates 2005a, 2005b, 2006a) I have suggested an approach to name theory which I have called a pragmatic theory of properhood, or, if I may elevate the descriptive phrase iconically into a proper name, The Pragmatic Theory of... Read More about Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood.

A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name (2009)
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A strictly Millian approach to proper names is defended, i.e. one in which expressions when used properly ('onymically') refer directly, i.e. without the semantic intermediaryship of the words that appear to comprise them. The approach may appear sel... Read More about A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name.

Reflections on some major Lincolnshire place-names, part 2: Ness wapentake to Yarborough (2009)
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Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, Part 2: Ness wapentake to Yarborough (2009)
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Reflections on some Lincolnshire major place-names, Part 1: Algarkirk to Melton Ross (2008)
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The name of the island of Annet, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall (2008)
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Azure Mouse, Bloater Hill, Goose Puddings, and One Land called the Cow: Continuity and conundrums in Lincolnshire minor names (2007)
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Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid (2006)
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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)
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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.

Behind the dictionary-forms of Scandinavian elements in England (2006)
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Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans (2005)
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A submitted article in the principal journal of general Celtic scholarship, accepted without major revision, reviewing previous scholarship on this difficult Romano-British place-name and claiming that it meant, in British Celtic, 'place of a man nam... Read More about Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans.