Kenneth L. Miner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kenneth L. Miner plays a role.

Articles

Miner, Kenneth L. 1990 Yiddish V/1 declarative clauses in discourseIPrA Papers in Pragmatics 4:1/2, pp. 122–149 | Article
Yiddish narratives contain a considerable number of declarative sentences which begin with the inflected verb: Hot im zayn vayb bald tsurikgeshikt dem briv ‘(So) his wife right away returned the letter.’ Such declarative sentences, which are never initial in a text, are often said to have… read more
The author puts forward the claim that The Indian Grammar Begun (1666) of John Eliot of Massachusetts (1604–90) constitutes the first published account of an ‘exotic’ language that can rightfully be called scientific (0.). The first portion of the argument treats Eliot’s English-based orthography… read more