Donka Minkova is Professor of English Language at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely in the fields of English and Germanic historical phonology and syntax, historical dialectology and English historical metrics. She is the author of The History of Final Vowels in English (1991) and of English Words: History and Structure (with Robert Stockwell, Cambridge University Press, 2001). She is also co-editor, with Robert Stockwell of Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective.
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Preface
1. Social and linguistic setting of alliterative verse in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England
2. Linguistic structures in English alliterative verse
3. Segmental histories: velar palatalization
4. Syllable structure
5. ONSET and cluster alliteration in Old English: the case of sp-, st-, sk-
6. ONSET and cluster alliteration in Middle English
7. Verse evidence for cluster simplification in Middle English
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