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Donkaupdated Biblio for the Web Site Full Bibliography Books A HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY OF ENGLISH Edinburgh University Press and Oxford UP (North America), 2014 Reviewed in: Linguist List, 25.4162, Oct. 2014 LINK Linguistics and English Language (U of Edinburgh)LINK Diachronica, 31(3), 457-463 (DOI: 10.1075/dia.31.3.06ful) LINK Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 115(3) (2014), 379-385 LINK Journal of Germanic Linguistics 28, no. 3 (2016): 266-272 • https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-germanic-linguistics/article/reviews-a-historical- phonology-of-english-by-minkova-donka-edinburgh-teXtbooks-on-the-english-languageadvanced- edinburgh-edinburgh-university-press-2014-pp-xvi-424-paperback- 2499-/7949C7D00C5C4E786E230F0C30E353AF/core-reader - core-reader-toc Anglia 134, no. 3 (2016): 521-527 LINK ONLINE COMPANION PURCHASE (EDINBURGH) PURCHASE (OXFORD) PHONOLOGICAL WEAKNESS IN ENGLISH. FROM OLD TO PRESENT-DAY ENGLISH Collected and edited by D. Minkova. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. (9 August 2009; ISBN 9780230524750) Reviewed in: English Language and Linguistics 15.3 LINK Anglia / Zeitschr. für engl. Philologie: 2012 vol:130:1 Book notes in: English Studies, Vol. 92, No. 7, Linguistics, Folia Linguistica, The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature PURCHA ENGLISH WORDS: HISTORY AND STRUCTURE Second Edition. With Robert Stockwell. Cambridge: CUP. 2009. Reviewed in: The Linguist List: Vol-13-5, January 2002 LINK Forum for Modern Language Studies 2003 vol: 39 p. 117; ATEFL Issues Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 7:2. Review of revised edition in: Language in Society 40:3 (2011) LINK WORKBOOK AND ANSWER KEYS PURCHASE EMPIRICAL AND ANALYTICAL ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHANGE Co-edited with Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield). TIEL (Topics in English Linguistics), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. PURCHASE CHAUCER AND THE CHALLENGES OF MEDIEVALISM. STUDIES IN HONOR OF H.A. KELLY Hamburg and Bern: Peter Lang Verlag. 2003. Co-edited with Theresa Tinkle. Reviewed in Speculum. 80, no. 1, (2005): 366 PURCHASE ALLITERATION AND SOUND CHANGE IN EARLY ENGLISH Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. Reviewed in: The Linguist List 14.2625 (Sept. 2003) LINK Anglia, Zeitschrift für englische Philologie- 124, no. 3, (2006): 494-497. Diachronica, Vol. 22, Number 2, 2005 , pp. 438-445 (8) LINK English Language and Linguistics, 2003, 7, 2, Nov, 347-351 JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic philology. 104, no. 3, (2005): 394 Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 36:1, June 2006, 104-107 LINK Language, Volume 81, Number 3, September 2005, pp. 745-748 LINK Medium Ævum (73:2) 2004, 328-9 Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 106: 4, 2005, 503-505 Speculum (80:4), 2005, 1331-1333 LINK PURCHASE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: A MILENNIAL PERSPECTIVE Topics in English Linguistics 39, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2002. With R. Stockwell. Paperback printing 2003. “Foreword.” by D. Minkova and R. Stockwell, p. 1-18 Reviewed in: The Linguist List Language, Volume 80, Number 3, September 2004, 601-605 LINK Papers in Generative Linguistics, Vol. 32:1, Spring 2002 Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 15.3, September 2003, 281-292 LINK Journal of English and Germanic Philology (103:3) 2004, 381-2 PURCHASE THE HISTORY OF FINAL VOWELS IN ENGLISH. THE SOUND OF MUTING Topics in English Linguistics 4; Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991. Reviewed in: Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris, Paris, 87/2, 1992 (1993), 204-206 Linguistics, Vol. 31, 1993, 194-198 Phonology, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1994, 361-364 Word, Vol. 45, No.1. April 1994, 45-50 Contrastive Linguistics, Vol. XIX, No. 3-4, 1994, 80-84 Lingua, Vol. 47, 1992 Incontri Linguistici, Vol. 15, 1992 (1993) 166-167 Diachronica, Vol. X/1 (1993) p. 158 NADS, Vol. 000 PURCHASE Research Articles and Book Chapters Year Title The history of –n loss in English: phonotactics, lexical, and grammatical specificity. With Michael Lefkovitz. In print in 2019 Folia Linguistica Historica 2019 LINK Old and Middle English Phonology, in Mark Aronoff (ed.), The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. 2019 Online Publication Date: May 2019 DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.266 LINK 2019 Examining the evidence for phonemic affricates: ME /tʃ͡ /, /dʒX / or [t-ʃ], [d-ʒ]? In Alcorn et al. (eds.) Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. Edinburgh UP. 156-184. LINK 2018 Language tests for the identification of Middle English Tail-Rhyme Romances. In Ad Putter and Judith Jefferson (eds.) The Transmission of Medieval Romance. Woodbridge, Suffolk: boydell and brewer, 127-149. LINK 2018 English word clipping in a diachronic perspective. In Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'hoedt (eds.) Papers from ICEHL 18, Amsterdam: John benjamins, 227-252. LINK 2017 Verse form as a mirror of history: From Old to Middle English. In Madlen Danova, Snezhina Dimitrova, Mira Kovacheva (eds.) Нови Направления в синхронната и диахронната фонетика и фонология (New Directions in Synchronic and Diachronic Phonetics and Phonology, University of Sofia Press, 9-29. 2017 “Prosody”. In English Historical Linguistics. An International Handbook, ed. by Alexander Bergs and Laurel Brinton. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Second Edition, 113-129. 2017 Genre, audience, and scribal adaptation to language change: The case of infinitival marking. With Emily Runde. In: Jacek Fisiak, Magdalena bator, Marta Sylwanowicz (eds.) Studies in Middle English Language and Literature, Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 95-121. LINK 2016 From stop-fricative clusters to contour segments in early English. In Don Chapman, Colette Moore and Miranda Wilcox (eds.) Studies in the History of the English Language VII. Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis (TiEL 94), pp. 29-60, berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. LINK 2016 Prosody-meter correspondences in late Old English and in the Middle English Poema Morale. In Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, Tom Shippey (eds.) Old English Philology: Studies in Honor of R.D. Fulk. Boydell and Brewer, 122- 144. LINK 2016 Ambisyllabicity in English: present and past. In M. Kytö and P. Pahta (eds.) Handbook of English Historical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, pp. 424-444. 2015 Establishing phonemic contrast in written sources. In P. Honeybone and J. Salmons (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology, 72-85. OUP. LINK 2015 A U-turn and its consequences for the history of final schwa in English. In Christina Sanchez- Stockhammer (ed.) Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), Volume 16, 2015. LINK, ABSTRACT 2015 Metrical resolution, spelling, and the reconstruction of Old English syllabification. In Studies in the History of the English Language VI: Evidence and Method in Histories of English, edited by M. Adams, R. D. Fulk, and L. brinton. berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2015, 137-161. LINK 2014 Dialect, rhyme, and emendation in Sir Tristrem, with Ad Putter and Judith Jefferson. JEGP Vol. 113, No. 1, 2014, pp. 73-93 LINK 2014 Perfect and Imperfect Rhyme: Romances in the abab Tradition. Studies in Philology, 2014: 111:4, 631-651. With Ad Putter and Judith Jefferson LINK 2013 Reconstructing stress in Old and Middle English. In Research Methods in Language Variation and Change, ed. by Manfred Krug and Julia Schlüter. Cambridge University Press, 2013, 260-278. LINK Year Title 2012 “Prosody”. In English Historical Linguistics. An International Handbook, ed. by AleXander Bergs and Laurel Brinton. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 2012, 113-129. LINK 2012 Syllable weight and the weak-verb paradigms in Old English. In Denison, David and Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero et al.(eds.). Analysing Older English. Cambridge: CUP, 2012, 194-212. LINK 2011 Phonemically contrastive fricatives in Old English? English Language and Linguistics, 15:1, (2011) p.31-60. LINK 2009 “Diagnostics of metricality in Middle English alliterative verse” In Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter (eds.), Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse, Leeds TeXts and Monographs, New Series 17, 2009, 77-114. LINK 2009 “On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse”. In Aroui, Jean-Louis & Andy Arleo (eds.) Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2009, p. p. 207-225. 2009 “Inflectional syncope: notes on the weak preterites in Middle and early Modern English”. In Minkova. D. (ed.) Phonological Weakness in English. From Old to Present-Day English, 316- 346. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 2008 “Phonology: Segmental Histories”. For A Companion to the History of the English Language, ed. by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto, Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 54, Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. With Robert Stockwell, 29-42. LINK 2008 PrefiXation and stress in Old English. Word Structure Volume 1: 1, 21-52, 2008. LINK 2007 The Forms of Speech. In A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, ed. by Peter Brown. OXford: Blackwell Publishing 2007, 159-176. LINK 2007 The Forms of Verse. In A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, ed. by Peter Brown. OXford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 176- 197. LINK 2006 “English Words”. In The Handbook of English Linguistics, ed. by Bas Aarts and April McMahon, OXford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 459-483. With Robert Stockwell. LINK 2006 “Randomness or Design in the
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