Carole Hough

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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

New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission

Edited by Christian Kay, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] 2004. xii, 271 pp.

Articles

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Hough, Carole 2022 Chapter 5. Old Northumbrian in the Scottish Borders: Evidence from place-names English 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 parishes Colour 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 reconsidered Language 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

Hough, Carole 2012 Repayment and revenge: Metaphorical or metonymic links between two semantic fields English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008, Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger (eds.), pp. 85–98 | Article

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-names Progress 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 Kent NOWELE Volume 38 (March 2001), pp. 109–113 | Article