Carole Hough

List of John Benjamins publications for which Carole Hough plays a role.

Titles

Colour Studies: A broad spectrum

Edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay

[Not in series, 191] 2014. xiv, 417 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Historical linguistics

New Directions in Colour Studies

Edited by Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons

[Not in series, 167] 2011. xii, 462 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Cognition and language | Historical linguistics
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Lexicography | Phonology | Semantics
Hough, Carole 2022 Chapter 5. Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders: Evidence from place-namesEnglish Historical Linguistics: Historical English in contact, Los, Bettelou, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja and Benjamin Molineaux (eds.), pp. 75–96 | Chapter
Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland: Evidence from place-names (REELS) is a research project funded for three years by The Leverhulme Trust at the University of Glasgow: http://berwickshire-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/. The project team is using a place-name survey of the… read more
Mhari, Leonie and Carole Hough 2014 Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features: A study of four Berwickshire parishesColour Studies: A broad spectrum, Anderson, Wendy, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 307–322 | Article
This chapter presents a study of colour terms in the names of four parishes within the historic county of Berwickshire in south-east Scotland. Out of 1,895 marked features on the first-edition six-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1856, sixty-nine (3.64%) have names containing colour terms. These fall… read more
Hough, Carole 2012 Celts in Scandinavian Scotland and Anglo-Saxon England: Place-names and language contact reconsideredLanguage Contact and Development around the North Sea, Stenroos, Merja, Martti Mäkinen and Inge Særheim (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
According to established models of language contact, communication between incoming settlers and indigenous populations leads to the survival of place-names, whose role as labels means that they can easily be transferred between groups of speakers without understanding of semantic content. The… read more
Links between the semantic fields of repayment and of revenge occur in many languages. As the usual pattern of metaphorical sense development is from concrete to abstract, repayment has been taken as the source domain, with revenge as the target. However, the relationship does not conform to that… read more
Hough, Carole 2006 Colours of the landscape: Old English colour terms in place-namesProgress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture, Biggam, Carole P. and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 181–198 | Article
Hough, Carole 2004 New light on the verb “understand”New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002, Kay, Christian, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon (eds.), pp. 139–149 | Article
Hough, Carole 2001 The Non-celtic Origin of Meguines Paed in KentNOWELE Volume 38 (March 2001), pp. 109–113 | Article