Donka Minkova

Donka Minkova (born 1944) is a Bulgarian-American linguist and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Books The History of Final Vowels in English (1991) English Words: History and Structure (with Robert Stockwell) (2001, Second Edition 2009) Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English (2003) A Historical Phonology of English (2014)

Edited Phonological Weakness in English: From Old to Present-Day English (2009) Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millennial Perspective (2002) Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism (2003) Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change (2009)