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He has written books on the names of the [[Channel Islands]], the local place-names of [[St Kilda, Scotland|St Kilda]], Hampshire and [[Sussex]], the dialect of Sussex, and, with [[Andrew Breeze]], on Celtic place-names in England, as well as about 400 academic articles, notes, and collections on related topics. For example, in 1998, he introduced a new etymology of the name ''London'', deriving it from the pre-Celtic [[Old European hydronymy|Old European]] ''*(p)lowonidā'', meaning 'boat river' or 'swim river', i.e. 'river too wide or deep to ford', and suggested that this was a name given to the part of the [[River Thames]] which flows through London; from this, the settlement gained the Celtic form of its name, ''*Lowonidonjon'', by suffixation.<ref name="coates1">{{cite journal|last=Coates|first=Richard|year=1998|title=A new explanation of the name of London|journal=Transactions of the Philological Society|volume=96|issue=2|pages=203–229|url=http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-968X.00027|doi=10.1111/1467-968X.00027}}</ref> His main contribution to linguistic theory is The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood, set out in a number of articles since 2000.<ref name="coates2">{{cite journal|last=Coates|first=Richard|year=2006|title=Properhood|journal=Language|volume=82|issue=2|pages=356–382|doi=10.1353/lan.2006.0084}}.</ref><ref name="coates3">{{cite journal|last=Coates|first=Richard|year=2006|title=Some consequences and critiques of The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood|journal=Onoma|volume=41|pages=27–44}}.</ref><ref name="coates4">{{cite journal|last=Coates|first=Richard|year=2007|title=A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name.|journal=Mind and Language|volume=24|issue=4|pages=433–444|doi=10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01369.x}}.</ref><ref name="coates5">{{cite journal|last=Coates|first=Richard|year=2012|title=Eight issues in The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood|journal=Acta Linguistica Lithuanica/ Lietuvių kalbotyros klausimai|volume=66|pages=119–140}}.</ref>

1988 ''Toponymic topics: essays on the early toponymy of the British Isles.'' Brighton: Younsmere Press; pp. v + 124 (ISBN 0 -9512309 -1 -3).

1989 ''The place-names of Hampshire.'' London: Batsford; pp. vii + 193 (ISBN 0 -7134 -5625 -6).

1990 ''The place-names of St Kilda: nomina hirtensia.'' Lampeter: Edwin Mellen (ISBN: 9780199677764ISBN:9780199677764 9780199677764CelticCeltic Studies 1); pp. viii + 221 (ISBN 0 -88946 -077 -9).

1991 ''The ancient and modern names of the Channel Islands: a linguistic history.'' Stamford: Paul Watkins; pp. xiv + 144 (ISBN 1 -871615 -15 -1).

1992 (ed.) ''De A.B.C. psalms by Jim Cladpole (James Richards).'' Brighton: Younsmere Press; pp.&nbsp;46 (ISBN 0 -9512309 -6 -4).

1999 ''The place-names of West Thorney.'' Nottingham: English Place-Name Society (supplementary series 1); pp. v + 64 (ISBN pbk 0904889 52 1).

1999 ''Word structure.'' London and New York: Routledge (Routledge Language Workbooks); pp. ix + 101 (ISBN pbk 0 415 20631 6). [Student guide to morphology. Also available as an e-book from 2005.]

2000 (with [[Andrew Breeze]]; including a contribution by David Horovitz) ''Celtic voices, English places: studies of the Celtic impact on place-names in England.'' Stamford: Shaun Tyas; pp. xiv + 433 (ISBN 1 -900289 -41 -5).

2006 (guest ed.) ''Name theory.'' Special issue of ''Onoma'', vol. 41 (spine date 2006; appeared 2011); pp.&nbsp;309 ({{ISSN |0078-463X}}, eISSN 1783-1644).