BAG – Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project

Irmengard Rauch is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Old High German Diphthongization: A Description of a Phonemic Change; The Old Saxon Language: Grammar, Epic Narrative, Linguistic Interference; Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking; The Phonology/Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German Across Time; The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings; and of numerous articles and chapters in professional journals and books. Rauch is co-editor of several collections of linguistics and semiotics research and is the Peter Lang series editor for Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics and Berkeley Models of Grammars. She is founding editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis and the founder of the Semiotic Circle of California, the Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, and the San Francisco Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project. Her honors include a Guggenheim and a Festschrift.

Contents: Contrastive Linguistics, Linguistic Fieldwork, and the Bay Area German Project – BAG Pilot Study – Is There an Aspect Distinction in Certain German Strong/Weak Verb Alternations? Evidence from German in the San Francisco Bay Area – Bilingual Pragmatics: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area German Project – BAG IV: Phonological Interference – English Phonetic Contrasts – BAG V: PC German – BAG VI: Toward a Grammar of German E-Mail – BAG VI–2: Toward a Grammar of German Snail-Mail – On the German Language of Civility/Vulgarity: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area – On the German Language of Civility/Vulgarity: Evidence from Bonn – BAG VIII: Emotion, Gesture, Language – BAG 9: Toward the Architecture of the Apology – BAG X: Toward the Architecture of the Lie – BAG XI: Toward Human : Canine Communication – BAG XII: German Netspeak/Textspeak.