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- Frenchay [1]
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- ACE - Creative and Cultural Industries [1]
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- Professor emeritus of Onomastics [1]
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- Phonetics and Phonology [1]
- anything concerned with my research areas, especially history of the English language [1]
- dialectology [1]
- historical linguistics [1]
- project design and implementation [1]
- semantics [1]
Research interests
- Currently working on: further development of the Family Names of the UK project [1]
- general etymology [1]
- history (esp. linguistic history) of early Britain [1]
- history of individual names [1]
- local history [1]
- name theory (The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood) in relation to semantics and pragmatics [1]
- the place-names of Hampshire (editor for Hampshire and till recently Hon. Director of the Survey of English Place-Names) [1]

Richard Coates

Professor emeritus of Onomastics

ACE - Creative and Cultural Industries

+441173283278

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