Donka Minkova

DONKA MINKOVA is Professor of English at University of California - Los Angeles, USA. She has published widely in the areas of English historical phonology, meter, dialectology, and syntax, most recently as co-editor of Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Changes (2008). She has held the Annual Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, the University of California Presidents Research Fellowship in the Humanities, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship, University of Bristol. CHARLES JONES is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Western Ontario.