DONKA MINKOVA
BIBLOGRAPHY
Updated 5/19/08:

Books:

Phonological Weakness in English. Collected and edited by D. Minkova. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. (Forthcoming 2008.) 

Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2007. Co-edited with Susan Fitzmaurice (In press, 2008)

English Words: History and Structure. With Robert Stockwell. CUP. 2001. Second Edition 2008.

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. 401 pp.

Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English Verse. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003.

Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective. Co-edited with Robert Stockwell. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2002. Paperback edition 2003.

The History of Final Vowels in English. The Sound of Muting. Topics in English Linguistics 4; Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.

Other Publications:

Early English Metre. By Thomas Bredehoft. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press (Toronto Old English Series) 2005. A Review. Forthcoming in Speculum 2008.

Prefixation and stress in Old English. Word Structure (ISSN 1750-1245). Vol. 1: April 2008.

The History of English Phonology. In The Blackwell Companion to the English Language, ed. by Haruko Momma, Blackwell. With Robert Stockwell. (Forthcoming 2008.)

Language: Old and Middle English. In: The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (ODMA), ed. by Robert Bjork. (Forthcoming 2009)

On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse. In Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms, ed. by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishers. (Forthcoming 2008)

Diagnostics of metricality in Middle English alliterative verse. Leeds Studies in English, (Forthcoming 2008)

Alliteration. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, ed. By Patrick Hogan, CUP (Forthcoming 2008)

The Forms of Speech. In: A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, ed. by Peter Brown. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 159-176.

The Forms of Verse. In: A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, ed. by Peter Brown. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007, 176-197.

Vocabulary Composition. In The Handbook of English Linguistics, ed. by Bas Aarts and April McMahon, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006, 459-483. With Robert Stockwell.

Phonetic naturalness vs. orthography in the formation of a standardized consonantal inventory of English. In: The Beginnings of Standardization. Language and Culture in Fourteenth Century England. Ed. Ursula Schäfer. Bern, Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang Verlag 2006, 147-175.

Old and Middle English prosody. In The Handbook of the History of English, ed, by Ans van Kemenade and Bettelou Los. Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, 2006, 95-125.

Chaucer’s Language: Pronunciation, Morphology, Metre. In Chaucer: An Oxford Guide, ed. by Steve Ellis, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005, 130-158.

Clash avoidance in morphologically derived words in Middle English. (Why [-h?d] but [d?m])? In: Rethinking Middle English. Linguistic and Literary Approaches, ed. by Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005, 263-280.

The Great Vowel Shift. In: Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Routledge, 2005. 2 volumes.

Old English. In: Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Ed. Philipp Strazny New York: Routledge, 2005. 2 volumes.

Middle English. In: Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Routledge, 2005. 2 volumes.

Philology, linguistics, and the history of [hw] ~[w]. In: Unfolding Conversations: Studies in the History of the English Language II: ed. by Anne Curzan and Kim Emmons. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004, 6-46.

English vowel shifts and "optimal" diphthongs: Is there a logical link? In: D. Eric Holt (ed.) Optimality Theory and Language Change, Kluwer Academic Publishers: The Netherlands, 2003, 169—190. With Robert Stockwell.

Editorial Emendation and the Chaucerian Metrical Template. In: Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism. Essays in Honor of H. A. Kelly, ed. by D. Minkova and Th. Tinkle. Hamburg and Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 2003, 129-140. With Robert Stockwell.

Interpreting the Old and Middle English close vowels. Language Sciences. Vol. 24, no. 3-4, April 2002. 447-458. With Robert Stockwell.

Ablaut reduplication in English: the criss-crossing of prosody and verbal art. English Language and Linguistics Vol. 6. 1, 133-170. May 2002.

The Cambridge History of the English Language: Vol. III, 1476-1776. Roger Lass, ed. Pp. xvii + 771. Review Article. Journal of English Linguistics 29, March 2001, 83-93.

On the partial-contact origins of English pentameter verse. In Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger (eds.) Language Contact in the History of English, Frankfurt am Mein: Peter Lang Verlag, 2001, 337-363. With Robert Stockwell.

"Middle English prosodic innovations and their testability in verse", in Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, and Matti Rissanen, (eds.) Placing Middle English in Context, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 2000, 431-461.

"What happened to Old English Clitic Pronouns and Why?" In Words, Structure, Meaning, Function, ed. By Christiane Dalton-Puffer and Nikolaus Ritt, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2000. 289-307. With Robert Stockwell.

"Syllable Onset in the history of English", in Generative theory and corpus studies: a dialogue from 10ICEHL, ed. by Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, David Denison, Richard Hogg and Chris McCully. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2000, 498-540.

"Explanations of sound change: contradictions between dialect data and theories of chain shifting." Leeds Studies in English, New Series Vol. XXX, 1999, 82-103. With Robert Stockwell.

"Proximate mechanisms vs. causal explanations", Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 18.1 (1999), 226-230.

"Velars and palatals in Old English alliteration", in Historical Linguistics 1997, ed. by Monika Schmid, Jennifer Austin and Dieter Stein, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 1998, 269-291.

Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre, by Geoffrey Russom. Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 23, Cambridge: CUP,xii + 235pp. 1998. Folia Linguistica Historica, Vol.XIX/1-2 1999, 173-183.

"The origins of short-long allomorphy in English", in Advances in English Historical Linguistics, ed. by Jacek Fisiak and Marcin Krygier, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998, 211-241. With Robert Stockwell.

The Phonology of Old English Stress and Metrical Structure by Piotr G!siorowski. Bamberger Beiträge zur englischen Sprachwissenschaft: Bd. 39. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 1997. English Language and Linguistics, 2.1, 141-147, 1998.

"Are diphthongs neglected?" Publications of the American Dialect Society 80: Conference Papers on American English and the International Phonetic Alphabet, ed. By Arthur Bronstein, 34-50. 1998. With Robert Stockwell.

“The Credibility of Pseudo-Alfred: Prosodic Insights into Post-Conquest Mongrel Meter”. Modern Philology, Vol. 94, No. 4, May 1997, 427-455.

"Prosody". Chapter Four in A Beowulf Handbook, ed. by Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles. Univ. of Nebraska Press and Exeter University Press, 1997. 55-85. With Robert Stockwell.

“Chaucerian phonemics: evidence and interpretation.” In: Language History and Linguistic Modelling, ed. by Raymond Hickey and Stanislaw Puppel, 1997, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 29-59. With Robert Stockwell.

“Constraint ranking in Middle English stress-shifting”. English Language and Linguistics, (CUP) Vol. I, No. 1. 1997, 135-175.

“Against the emergence of the nuclear stress rule in Middle English”. In Studies in Middle English, ed. by Jacek Fisiak, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, 301-335. With Robert Stockwell.

“On Drifts and Shifts”. Stidia Anglica Poznaniensia XXXI, 1997, 283-305. With Robert Stockwell.

“Old English Metrics and the Phonology of Resolution”, Germanic Studies in Honor of Anatloly Liberman, NOWELE, (North-Western European Language Evolution, Odense, Denmark) Vol. 31/32, October 1997, 389-406. With Robert Stockwell.

“Non-primary stress in Early Middle English accentual-syllabic verse.” English Historical Metrics. 1996. Ed. by J. J. Anderson and C. B. McCully. Cambridge: CUP, 95-120.

“Against the Notion ‘Metrical Grammar’”. In Irmengard Rauch and Gerald Carr (eds.) Insights in Germanic Linguistics II, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997, 243-257. With Robert Stockwell.

“Verse structure as evidence for prosodic reconstruction in Old English” Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistics Science. Series 4, 1996, Issue 135, ed. by Derek Britton, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 13-38.

Old English: A historical linguistic companion by Roger Lass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xx + 300. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literature 7.2 (1995), 264-271.

A History of Old English Meter by Robert Fulk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1992. xxi + 428pp. Language , Vol. 71, No. 2 (June 1995), 359-366. With Robert Stockwell.

The Cambridge History of the English Language: Vol II, 1066-1476. Ed. by Norman Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.Pp. xxi + 703. Journal of Linguistics 30.2, Sept. 1994, 528-548. With Robert Stockwell.

The Cambridge History of the English Language: Vol. I, The Beginnings to 1066. Ed by Richard Hogg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii + 609. Journal of Linguistics 30.2, Sept. 1994, 215-227. With Robert Stockwell.

“Syllable weight, prosody, and meter in Old English.” Diachronica XI:1, (1994), 35-65. With Robert Stockwell.

“Kuhn’s laws and the rise of verb-second syntax.” Language Change and Language Structure: Older Germanic Languages in a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Toril Swan, Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen Westwik. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994, 213-233. With Robert Stockwell.

“On leap-frogging in historical phonology”, in Papers from the Tenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics Amsterdam. ed. by Jaap van Marle. Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Vol. 107. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1993, pp. 211-229.

A Book of Middle English, by John A. Burrow & Thorlac Turville-Petre, London: Blackwell, 303pp. 1992 Diachronica X:1, 1993, 119-127.

“Kuhn’s Laws and Verb-Second: On Kendall’s theory of syntactic displacement in Beowulf”. On Germanic Linguistics, ed. by Irmengard Rauch, Gerald F. Carr and R. Kyes. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, 315-337. With Robert Stockwell.

“Homorganic clusters as moric busters in the history of English: the case of -ld, -nd, -mb”. History of Englishes: New Methods and Interpretations in Historical Linguistics, ed. by Matti Rissanen, Ossi Ihalainen et al. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, 191-207. With Robert Stockwell.

“On the Role of Prosodic Features in Syntactic Change.” Internal and External Factors in Syntactic Change ed. by Marinel Gerritsen and Dieter Stein, Trends in linguistics, Studies and Monographs 61, 1992. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 417-433. With Robert Stockwell.

“Poetic Influence on Prose Word Order in Old English.” In: Evidence for Old English: Material and Theoretical Bases for Reconstruction. Edinburgh Studies in the English Language 2. ed. by Fran Colman. John Donald Publishers Ltd. Edinburgh. 1992, pp. 142-155. With Robert Stockwell.

“Verse Structure in the Middle English Genesis and Exodus.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 91:2, (1992) 157-179.

A History of English Phonology by Charles Jones, London: Longman. Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 27, No. 2, 542-550.

“Subordination and word order change in the History of English.” In: Historical English Syntax: Topics in English Linguistics 2, ed. by Dieter Kastovsky, Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin 1991, 367-409. With Robert Stockwell.

“Early Modern English Vowels: More O’Lass” Diachronica VII: 2. (1990) 199-221. With Robert Stockwell.

“Adjectival inflexion relics and speech rhythm in Late Middle and Early Modern English” in: Papers from the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, ed. by S. Adamson, Vivien Law, Nigel Vincent and Susan Wright. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1990, 313-337.

“Verb phrase conjunction in Old English”, in: Histrorical Linguistics 1987, ed. by Henning Andersen and Konrad Koerner, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins 1990, 499-516. With Robert Stockwell.

"The English Vowel Shift: Problems of Coherence and Explanation". in: Luick Revisited, Papers read at the Luick-Symposium at Schloß Liechtenstein, 15.-18.9.1985, ed. by Dieter Kastovsky and G. Bauer. Günter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1988, 355-395. With Robert Stockwell.

"A Rejoinder to Lass", in: Luick Revisited , Papers read at the Luick-Symposium at Schloß Liechtenstein, 15.-18.9.1985, ed. by Dieter Kastovsky and Gero Bauer. Günter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 1988, 411-419. With Robert Stockwell.

The Trajectory Constraint and 'Irregular' Rhymes in Middle English by Michiko Terajima, Shinozaki Shorin, Tokyo, 1985, Folia Linguistica Historica VIII/1-2. 481-502.

The prosodic character of early schwa deletion in English. Papers from the 7th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ed. by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Onforio Carruba, and Giuliano Bernini, John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia. 1987, 445-458.

Of rhyme and reason: Some foot-governed quantity changes in English. Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ed. by R.Eaton, O. Fischer, W. Koopman, F.van der Leek, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, l985,162-79.

Early Middle English metric elision and schwa deletion, English Historical Linguistics: Studies in Development. CECTAL Conference Papers Series No. 3, ed. by N.F. Blake and Charles Jones, Sheffield, l984, 56-67.

"On the hierarchy of factors leading to schwa loss in Middle English", Neuphilologische Mitteilungen Vol. LXXXV/4, 445-54, 1984.

A classification of factors leading to schwa loss in Middle English, University of Sofia English Papers, Vol. II, 160-86, l983.

"The Environment for Middle English Open Syllable Lengthening", Folia Linguistica Historica, III/1, 1982, 29-58.

"Middle English final -e from a phonemic point of view", Work in Progress Department of Linguistics, Edinburgh University, Vol. 15, 27-45; Revised version in: Current Topics in English Historical Linguistics, Odense University Studies in English, Vol. 4, 191-210, 1981.

Unstressed final -e in the Ormulum, English Studies. Sofia, Vol. I, l978, 162-81.

Review of Jerzy Welna: A Diachronic Grammar of English, Part One, Phonology, Warszawa, 1978. Folia Linguistica Historica, II/1 151-6.

"About Last Night", by Zdravka Evtimova. Translated from Bulgarian by Donka Minkova The Text, Leeds, Sept. 1996.

??????????? ? ???????????? ???????? ?? ?????????? ?? ???????? –? ? ???????????????? ??????. [Phonological and morphological problems of the loss of final -e in Middle English], a monograph based on the Ph.D. thesis, Sofia University Press, 1983.

Katsarova, Raina, Minkova, Donka, Lloyd, Albert. L. (ed. & tr.) Bulgarian Funeral Laments, International Folklore Review: Folklore Studies from Overseas, London, England, Vol. 2, 112-130 (1982).

????????? ???? ?? ?????????? [A Course in Conversational English for Advanced Students of English], 16 units, 96 pp. broadcast weekly by Radio Sofia, May-Oct-Dec. l983.

"????o?a?????? ?? ??????? ?? ????? ?? ?????????????? ????” ["The language level approach to teaching history of the language to university students"], ???????? ?? ??????? ??????????? [Problems of Higher Education] Sofia, 1977, B 42-6 (In Bulgarian, English summary p.64)