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Moray Watson and Michelle Macleod: The Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language

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Elements of Latin Origin in P-Celtic Place-names between the Walls

Meek, Donald E.

Radical Romantics: Glasgow Gaels and the Highland Land Agitation, 1870–1890

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Ruaraidh MacThòmais: The Glasgow Verse

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Loirceann na Luaith: another link in the chain?

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‘Tha mulad air m’ inntinn’ and early modern Gaelic dialogue verse

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Leaps of the Imagination: the leap tradition in Scotland

Taylor, Simon

The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 11, 2017, 111–15
Bibliography of Scottish Name Studies for 2016
Simon Taylor
University of Glasgow
This is the eighth such bibliography in The Journal of Scottish Name Studies 
(JSNS),1 the first appearing in JSNS 4 (2010) covering the years 2006–2009, the 
second in JSNS 5 (2011) covering the year 2010 and so on. It aims to present, in a 
continuous list arranged alphabetically by author, all relevant articles, chapters 
in edited books, monographs, CDs, e-books and PhDs (most of which are now 
available on-line) which appeared in 2016. This bibliography draws heavily on 
those which I compile for Scottish Place-Name News (SPNNews), the excellent 
twice-yearly newsletter of the Scottish Place-Name Society, which should also 
be consulted for shorter, often illustrated, articles on a wide range of Scottish 
toponymic themes.
For more extensive bibliographies of name studies in Britain and Ireland 
and, less comprehensively, other parts of northern Europe, see the bibliographic 
sections in the relevant issues of Nomina, the journal of the Society for Name 
Studies in Britain and Ireland. The material in these Nomina bibliographies is 
set out thematically and includes relevant reviews which have appeared in the 
given year.
I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who spots any omissions or 
errors in the following bibliography. I can be contacted via the JSNS website 
or by post c/o Clann Tuirc. Also, I would be glad to receive notice of anything 
published in 2017 for inclusion in JSNS 12.
In order to make it easier for the reader to find their way around, I have put 
in bold not only authors’ surnames but also some of the key places, persons or 
elements discussed in the individual entries.
Aitchison, Nick, 2016, ‘The Laich o’ Menteith: reassessing the origins of the Lake 
of Menteith’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies 10, 1–24 [free online publication].
Anderson, Wendy, and Hough, Carole, 2016, ‘Engaging users of Scottish online 
language resources’, in Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora. Volume 3: 
Databases for Public Engagement, ed. Karen P. Corrigan and Adam Mearns 
(London: Palgrave Macmillan), 69–97 [contains a section on the Scots Words 
and Place-names Project (SWAP)].
1 Thanks to Richard Cox, Alice Crook, Liz Curtis, Carole Hough, Alan James, Jacob King, 
Mícheál Ó Mainnín, Maggie Scott and Alasdair Whyte for help in compiling this bibliography.
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Arcamone, Maria Giovanna, 2016, ‘Langobard and Anglo-Saxon Place Names: 
A Comparison’, in Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th 
International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 
vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 1, 
Keynote Lectures. Toponomastics I, 59-–67 [free online publication: http://
www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Braithwaite, Michael E., 2016, Howes and Knowes: an introduction to 
Berwickshire place-names (The Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club).
Bramwell, Ellen S., 2016, ‘Personal Naming and Community Practices in the 
Western Isles of Scotland: Putting Names in the “Gaelic Sense”’, in Names 
and Naming: People, Places, Perceptions and Power, ed. Guy Puzey and Laura 
Kostanski (Bristol: Multilingual Matters), 47–61.
Burns, Alison, Hough, Carole and Simmons, David, 2016, ‘An Experiment 
in Public Engagement with the Cognitive Toponymy Project’, in Names 
and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of 
Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 vols, ed. Carole Hough 
and Daria Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 1, Keynote Lectures. 
Toponomastics I, 120–29 [free online publication: http://www.icos2014.com/
congress-proceedings/].
Clancy, Thomas O., 2016, ‘Logie: an ecclesiastical place-name element in 
eastern Scotland’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies 10, 25–88 [free online 
publication].
Coates, Richard, 2016, ‘The Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK) 
Project: Retrospect and Prospect’, in Names and Their Environment. 
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 
15–19 August 2014, 5 vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska (University 
of Glasgow), Vol. 1, Keynote Lectures. Toponomastics I, 25–40 [free online 
publication: http://www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Cox, Richard A. V., 2016, ‘Cliseam’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies 10, 206–12 
[free online publication].
Crook, Alice, 2016, ‘An Overview of Personal Naming Practices in Scotland, 
1680–1840’, in Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th 
International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 
vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 4, 
Theory and Methodology. Socio-onomastics, 221–31 [free online publication: 
http://www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Dunlop, Leonie, 2016, ‘Breaking old and new ground: a comparative study of 
coastal and inland naming in Berwickshire’, unpublished PhD, University of 
Glasgow.
FaNUK Report, 2015, ‘Family Names of the United Kingdom’, Nomina 38, 118–30 
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[appeared in 2016].
Hamilton, Rachael, Bramwell, Ellen, and Hough, Carole, 2016, ‘Mapping 
Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus: A New Resource for Investigating 
Metaphor in Names’, in Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th 
International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 
vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 4, 
Theory and Methodology. Socio-onomastics, 33–40 [free online publication: 
http://www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Holliday, John, 2016, Longships on the Sand: Scandinavian and medieval 
settlement on the island of Tiree: a place-name study (Tiree: An Iodhlann 
Press).
Hough, Carole, 2015, ‘Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland: 
evidence from place-names’, Nomina 38, 101–115 [appeared in 2016].
Hough, Carole, 2015, ‘The Scottish Maidenwells’, Nomina 38, 1–16 [appeared in 
2016]
Hough, Carole, 2016, ‘The Metaphorical Landscape’, in Mapping English 
Metaphor Through Time, ed. Wendy Anderson, Ellen Bramwell and Carole 
Hough (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 13–31.
Hough, Carole (ed.), with assistance from Daria Izdebska, 2016, The Oxford 
Handbook of Names and Naming (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [containing 
sections on Onomastic Theory, Toponomastics (aka Toponymics), 
Anthroponomastics, Literary Onomastics, Socio-onomastics, Onomastics 
and Other Disciplines and Other Types of Names (such as aircraft names, 
animal names and ship names); see Leonie Dunlop’s review of this book, both 
for an excellent overview and for specifically Scotland-related contributions, 
in this issue of JSNS (11), 103–06].
Hough, Carole, and Daria Izdebska (eds), 2016, Names and Their Environment. 
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, 
Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 vols, (University of Glasgow) [contains 
articles on a wide range of onomastic topics from all over the world. Those 
with a particular Scottish interest or content are listed separately in this 
bibliography. The volumes are arranged as follows: Vol. 1 Keynote Lectures. 
Toponomastics I, Vol. 2 Toponomastics II, Vol. 3 Anthroponomastics, Vol. 4 
Theory and Methodology. Socio-onomastics, Vol. 5 Literary Onomastics. Other 
Names. Commercial Names. A free online publication: http://www.icos2014.
com/congress-proceedings/].
McKay, Patrick, 2016, ‘Scots elements in Ulster minor place-names’, Ainm 13, 
1–18.
Macniven, Alan, 2014, ‘Navigating the nomenclature: the validity of Gaelic 
Tairbeart as evidence for pre-Norse survival in Lewis and the west of 
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Scotland’, in The Lewis Chessmen New Perspectives, ed. David H. Caldwell and 
Mark Hall (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh), 121–49 [omitted in 
error from the relevant JSNS bibliography].
Muhr, Kay, 2016, ‘Bealtaine in Irish and Scottish Place-names’, Journal of Scottish 
Name Studies 10, 89–126 [free online publication].
Ó Baoill, Colm, 2016, ‘Saint Fittick ‒ Some Linguistic Light?’, Journal of Scottish 
Name Studies 10, 127–36 [free online publication].
Otte, Christophe, 2016, ‘The Place-Names of the Parish of Lochmaben: 
Reconstructing the Settlement Landscape of Early Medieval Dumfriesshire’, 
Transactions of the Dumfries & Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian 
Society 90, 17–50 [appeared November 2017].
Puzey, Guy, and Kostanski, Laura (eds), 2016, Names and Naming: People, Places, 
Perceptions and Power (Bristol: Multilingual Matters) [details, brief reviews 
and contents page available on http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.
asp?K=9781783094912].
Sandnes, Berit, 2016, ‘Linguistically Mixed Names’, in Names and Their 
Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic 
Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria 
Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 2, Toponomastics II, 117–22 [using 
Orkney place-names as part of the argument. Free online publication: http://
www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Scott, Maggie, ‘Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon’, in Names 
and Naming: People, Places, Perceptions and Power, ed. Guy Puzey and Laura 
Kostanski (Bristol: Multilingual Matters), 137–52.
Shokhenmayer, Evgeny, 2016, ‘Comparative Study of the 100 Most Frequent 
Russian, French, German and British Surnames’, in Names and Their 
Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic 
Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria 
Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 3, Anthroponomastics, 221–32 [free 
online publication: http://www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Taylor, Simon, 2016, ‘Charting a course through the Scottish Namescape’, 
in Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International 
Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 vols, ed. Carole 
Hough and Daria Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 1, Keynote Lectures. 
Toponomastics I, 2–24 [free online publication: http://www.icos2014.com/
congress-proceedings/].
ten Hacken, Pius (ed.), 2016, The Semantics of Compounding (Innsbruck, 
Austria).
Todman, Amy, and Leonie M. Dunlop, 2016, ‘Contemporary and Antiquarian 
Views as Evidence for Toponymic Research: A Comparative Study of the Bass 
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Rock and Greendykes Bing’, in Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of 
the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 
2014, 5 vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska (University of Glasgow), 
Vol. 4, Theory and Methodology. Socio-onomastics, 188–93 [free online 
publication: http://www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Vikstrand, Per, 2016, ‘Place Names and Viking Age Religion’, in Names and Their 
Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic 
Sciences, Glasgow, 15–19 August 2014, 5 vols, ed. Carole Hough and Daria 
Izdebska (University of Glasgow), Vol. 2, Toponomastics II, 177–84 [free online 
publication: http://www.icos2014.com/congress-proceedings/].
Young, Sheila, 2016, ‘The Eternal Ascent: an exploratory treatise on mountain 
route names’, Journal of Scottish Name Studies 10, 137-205 [free online 
publication].
REVIEWS [not by year]
Jesch, Judith, 2017, Review of Macniven, Alan, 2015, The Vikings in Islay: the 
Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History (Edinburgh: John Donald), in 
Innes Review 68 no. 2 (Autumn), 182–84.
Whyte, Alasdair C., 2016, Review of Macniven, Alan, 2015, The Vikings in Islay: 
the Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History (Edinburgh: John Donald), in 
Journal of Scottish Name Studies 10, 213–18.


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