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Coates, Richard

Authors



Contributors

Richard M. Hogg
Editor

David Denison
Editor

Abstract

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 the theory of names (partly based on the author's own work), followed by extended histories and linguistic descriptions of personal names and naming practices, surnaming and place-naming, principally in England itself, from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Much of it, especially the place-names section, draws on the author's research, and the synthesis is also the author's own.

Citation

Coates, R. (2006). Names. In R. M. Hogg, & D. Denison (Eds.), A history of the English Language (312-351). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521662273

Publication Date Apr 1, 2006
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Pages 312-351
Book Title A history of the English Language
ISBN 9780521662277
DOI https://doi.org/10.2277/0521662273
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1040002
Publisher URL http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521662273