Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch

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.

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.