Donka Minkova
List of John Benjamins publications in which Donka Minkova is involved.
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ISSN 0176-4225 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9714
2018 Chapter 10. English word clipping in a diachronic perspective Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English, Petré, Peter, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt (eds.), pp. 227–252 | Chapter
Shortening processes are increasingly productive in Present-day English (PDE), generating 9–15% of the new words in the language. They are therefore a valuable source of information on the interaction of production, perception, prosodic well-formedness, morphological patterning, and sociolinguistic… read more
2009 On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond, Aroui, Jean-Louis and Andy Arleo (eds.), pp. 209–228 | Article
The meter of a large body of alliterative verse texts composed in English in the fourteenth century appears so irregular that it has defied formalization. Nevertheless, certain prosodic patterns recur with great frequency while others are rare or unattested; this invites further inquiry into the… read more
1998 Velars and Palatals in Old English Alliteration Historical Linguistics 1997: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, 10–17 August 1997, Schmid, Monika S., Jennifer R. Austin and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 269–290 | Article
1997 Old English Metrics and the Phonology of Resolution NOWELE Volume 31/32 (November 1997): Germanic Studies, Goblirsch, Kurt Gustav, Martha Berryman Mayou and Marvin Taylor (eds.), pp. 389–406 | Article
1994 Syllable Weight, Prosody, and Meter in Old English Diachronica 11:1, pp. 35–64 | Article
SUMMARY Nearly all recent studies of Old English prosody have argued that main stress is fixed by phonological rules which make reference to syllable weight. We claim that such arguments are wrong, partly because they depend on still dubious assumptions about the scansion of Old English verse, and… read more
1993 On leapfrogging in historical phonology Historical Linguistics 1991: Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12–16, 1991, Marle, Jaap van (ed.), pp. 211–228 | Article
1993 Review of Burrow & Turville-Petre (1992): A Book of Middle English Diachronica 10:1, pp. 119–126 | Review
1990 Adjectival inflexion relics and speech rhythm in late middle English and early modern English Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Adamson, Sylvia M., Vivien A. Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright (eds.), pp. 313–336 | Article
1990 The Early Modern English Vowels, More O' Lass Diachronica 7:2, pp. 199–214 | Article
SUMMARY Roger Lass has proposed radical revisions of widely known assessments of some of the evidence concerning the pronunciation of early modern English. We accept many of his claims, but we argue that his revisions are wrong on one central point, and questionable in three less important ones.… read more
1990 Verb phrase conjunction in Old English Historical Linguistics 1987: Papers from the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Lille, August 30-September 4, 1987, Andersen, Henning and E.F.K. Koerner † (eds.), pp. 499–516 | Article
1987 The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Onofrio Carruba and Giuliano Bernini (eds.), pp. 445–458 | Article
1985 Of Rhyme and reason: some foot-governed quantity changes in English Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985, Eaton, Roger, Olga Fischer, Willem F. Koopman and Frederike van der Leek (eds.), pp. 163–178 | Article