Bibliography

Richard
Coates
s. xx–xxi

18 publications between 1981 and 2015 indexed
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Works authored

Coates, Richard, and Andrew Breeze, Celtic voices, English places. Studies of the Celtic impact on place-names in England, Stamford: Shaun Tyas, 2000.


Contributions to journals

Coates, Richard, “Magiovinium, Dropshort Farm, near Fenny Stratford, Buckinghamshire”, Studia Celtica 49 (2015): 175–181.
Coates, Richard, “The problem of Striguil, the earliest name of Chepstow: a discussion”, Studia Celtica 47 (2013): 113–122.
Coates, Richard, “Carausius and Allectus”, Studia Celtica 47 (2013): 178–182.
Coates, Richard, “The name of the Hwicce: a discussion”, Anglo-Saxon England 42 (2013): 51–61.
Coates, Richard, “The 'Corielta(u)vi'”, Studia Celtica 46 (2012): 194–200.
Coates, Richard, “The British dynasty of Commius: a philological discussion”, Studia Celtica 45 (2011): 185–192.
Coates, Richard, “A Brittonic solution of the second element in the place-names Presteigne and Kinsham”, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 52 (Winter, 2006): 49–64.
Coates, Richard, “The pre-English name of Dorchester-on-Thames”, Studia Celtica 40 (2006): 51–62.
Coates, Richard, “Lichfield and Lytchett: a philological problem involving Brittonic */e:/ resolved”, Studia Celtica 40 (2006): 173–174.
Coates, Richard, “Stour and Blyth as English river-names”, English Language and Linguistics 10:1 (2006): 23–29.  
abstract:
The disputed etymology of the river-name Stour is revisited. It is suggested that an ‘Old European’ river-name was taken for an OE adjective, and that this adjective with its antonym represented in the river-name Blyth expressed the principal opposition in the classificatory system imposed on rivers in the Anglo-Saxon period.
abstract:
The disputed etymology of the river-name Stour is revisited. It is suggested that an ‘Old European’ river-name was taken for an OE adjective, and that this adjective with its antonym represented in the river-name Blyth expressed the principal opposition in the classificatory system imposed on rivers in the Anglo-Saxon period.
Coates, Richard, “Four pre-English river names in and around Fenland: Chater, Granta, Nene and Welland”, Transactions of the Philological Society 103:3 (December, 2005): 303–322.  
abstract:
In the context of discussion by Vennemann (1994) and Kitson (1996) in this journal about the linguistic nature of some ancient European river-names, I offer accounts of four unexplained or unsatisfactorily explained names in England. I argue that these four are pre-English in origin: that one (Granta) is Old European, in the sense of the term introduced by Hans Krahe (1962, 1964) whose position informs Kitson’s work, and that the other three can be interpreted as British Celtic, borrowed into Old English [OE] at the Neo-Brittonic stage datable to c.400–600 C.E.
abstract:
In the context of discussion by Vennemann (1994) and Kitson (1996) in this journal about the linguistic nature of some ancient European river-names, I offer accounts of four unexplained or unsatisfactorily explained names in England. I argue that these four are pre-English in origin: that one (Granta) is Old European, in the sense of the term introduced by Hans Krahe (1962, 1964) whose position informs Kitson’s work, and that the other three can be interpreted as British Celtic, borrowed into Old English [OE] at the Neo-Brittonic stage datable to c.400–600 C.E.
Coates, Richard, “Verulamium, the Romano-British name of St Albans”, Studia Celtica 39 (2005): 169–176.
Coates, Richard, “A new explanation of the name of London”, Transactions of the Philological Society 96 (1998, 1998): 203–229.
Coates, Richard, “Margidunum”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 38 (1981): 255–268.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

Richard Coates, “The sociolinguistic context of Brunanburh”, in: Michael Livingston, The battle of Brunanburh: a casebook (2011).
Coates, Richard, “Invisible Britons: the view from linguistics”, in: N. J. Higham (ed.), Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, 7, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007. 172–191.
Coates, Richard, “The significances of Celtic place-names in England”, in: Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Heli Pitkänen (eds), The Celtic roots of English, 37, Joensuu: University of Joensuu, 2002. 47–86.