Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch: (98 Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics)

Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch represents that portion of Irmengard Rauch’s articles which center on contemporary and historical Germanic linguistic phenomena. They thus speak to the principal North, East, and West Germanic dialects. Her authored books The Old High German Diphthongization: A Description of a Phonemic Change (1967); The Old Saxon Language: Grammar, Epic Narrative, Linguistic Interference (1992); Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking (1998); The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings (2003, 2011); The Phonology/Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across Time (2008) stand on their own. Her contributions to linguistic fieldwork are documented in BAG—Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project (2015). Rauch’s writings spanning half a century, from the early sixties to the present, encompass an array of subjects from the state of the art, to multiple language components, that is, segmental and prosodic phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic topics informing Germanic languages, as well as to literature and to nonverbal communication. Linguistic and interdisciplinary methods imbue all of her writings. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where Generative Grammar made early inroads, she was trained as an American structuralist, reaping the benefits of the functionalist Prague School, preceded by Saussure, the Neogrammarians, Darwin, Rask, Grimm (all 19th-century instigators of linguistics as a science), and of the founding of the LSA. Since the early seventies she opened her methods of analysis to the semiotic approach of Locke, Saussure, and Peirce. Consequently, Rauch’s writings exploit the combined approaches of linguistics and semiotics. These are the inextricable work-horses, which in combination, enhance her arguments detailing given linguistic problems that define the field of General and Germanic Linguistics and thus feed the multi-disciplinary research interests of both seasoned researchers and neophytes.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements – Introduction – “Wolfram’s Dawn-Song Series: An Explication” (1963) – “A Problem in Historical Synonymy” (1964) – “Staging in Historical Phonemics: GMC. *ō > OHG uo” (1965) – “Phonological Causality and the Early Germanic Consonantal Conditioners of Primary Stressed Vowels” (1967) – “The Heliand Verses 5・7 Again” (1968) – “Heliand i-Umlaut Evidence for the Original Dialect Position of Old Saxon” (1970) – Review Articles・Rapport Critique (1971) – “The Germanic Dental Preterite, Language Origin, and Linguistic Attitude” (1972) – “Old High German Vocalic Clusters” (1973) – “Some North-West Germanic Dental Conditioners and Laryngeal Effect” (1973) – “Were Verbs in Fact Noun Subsidiaries?” (1974) – “Die phonologische Basis des Deutschen: unter- und uberphonemische Faktoren” (1975) – “Semantic Features Inducing the Germanic Dental Preterit Stem” (1975) – “What Can Generative Grammar Do for Etymology? An Old Saxon Hapax” (1975) – “Linguistic Method: Yesterday and Today” (1976) – “Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin?” (1978) – “Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin?” (1978) – “Inversion, Adjectival Participle, and Narrative Effect in Old Saxon” (1981) – “Towards a Schwa in Gothic” (1981) – “What Is Cause?” (1981) – “Historical Analogy and the Peircean Categories” (1982) – “Uses of the Germanic Past Perfect in Epic Backgrounding” (1982) – “On the Modality of the Article” (1983) – “‘Symbols Grow’: Creation, Compulsion, Change” (1984) – “The Mendacious Mode in Modern German” (1986) – “Old Saxon hell, Drawl and Silence” (1987) – “How Do Germanic Linguistic Data React to Newer Literary Methods?” (1988) – “The Impact of Language (Morphology) on Luther: Sapir-Whorf Redux” (1988) – “The Saussurean Axes Subverted” (1988) – “Evidence of Language Change” (1990) – “Early New High German e-Plural” (1991) – “On the Nature of Firsts in Language Chance” (1991) – “Another Old English・Old Saxon Isogloss: (REM) Activity” (1992) – “Old Saxon Barred Vowel” (1992) – “Icon Destruction and Icon Construction” (1992) – “The Old English Genesis B Poet: Bilingual or Interlingual?” (1993) – “Toward Germanic Schwa: Old Saxon Evidence” (1993) – “Formal and Less Formal Rules” (1995) – “On the BBC/A&E Bicentennial ‘Pride and Prejudice’” (1997) – “Feature Spreading in Old High German and Old Saxon: Umlaut, Monopthongization, Pragmatics” (1999) – “Syntax des Altniederdeutschen (Altsachsischen)” (2000) – “Analogy’s Hidden Triggers” (2001) – “Paralanguage: Evidence from Germanic” (2001) – “Historical Pragmatics: Pervasive Evidence from Old Saxon” (2002) – “The Newly Found Leipzig Heliand Fragment” (2006) – “Gender Semiotics, Anglo-Frisian wīf, and Old Frisian Noun Gender” (2007) – “Exapted ‘oh’: How Does It Fit into the Prosodic Hierarchy?” (2012) – “The Power and the Glory of Sound” Sebeok Fellow Address, Semiotic Society of America (Pittsburgh, PA・29 October 2011) (2012) – “Hic et nunc: Evidence from Canine Zoosemiotics” (2013) – On Gothic in the Computer Age (2014) – “On Consonantal Conditioners Again and the Case of the Rising Short Old Frisian IU” (2015) – “Toward Schwa in Gothic Again and Its Melody” (2017) – Published Writings of Irmengard Rauch – Index.

About the Author :
Irmengard Rauch is Professor of Germanic Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley. Her honors include a Guggenheim, a Festschrift, and the Eighth Sebeok Fellow. Gerald F. Carr is Professor Emeritus, California State University, Sacramento. He is co-editor of over a dozen collections of linguistics and semiotic research.