Kenneth L. Miner

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kenneth L. Miner is involved.

Articles

Miner, Kenneth L. 1990 Yiddish V/1 declarative clauses in discourse IPrA Papers in Pragmatics 4:1/2, pp. 122–149 | Article

Yiddish narratives contain a considerable number of declarative sentences which begin with the inflected verb: Hot im zayn vayb bald tsurikgeshikt dem briv ‘(So) his wife right away returned the letter.’ Such declarative sentences, which are never initial in a text, are often said to have… read more

Miner, Kenneth L. 1974 John Eliot of Massachusetts and the Beginnings of American Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 1:2, pp. 169–183 | Article

The author puts forward the claim that The Indian Grammar Begun (1666) of John Eliot of Massachusetts (1604–90) constitutes the first published account of an ‘exotic’ language that can rightfully be called scientific (0.). The first portion of the argument treats Eliot’s English-based orthography… read more