Irmengard Rauch

Irmengard Rauch (born 1933 in Dayton, Ohio) is a linguist and semiotician.

She is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.1979–80; 1982–present. Previously at the Univ. of Illinois (1968–82); the University of Pittsburgh (1966–68); the Univ. of Wisconsin (1962–66).

She is the editor of the book series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics;^[1]Berkeley Models of Grammars; Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures; co-editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis.

Selected works

• The Old High German Diphthongization: A Description of a Phonemic Change. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica XXXVI. The Hague: Mouton. 1967.
• Approaches in Linguistic Methodology. Co-ed. C. T. Scott. Introduction, I. Rauch and C. T. Scott, pp. 3–8. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1967.
• Approaches…. published in Spanish-language edition as Estudios de metodologia linguistica, translated by M. L. Guillen. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1974.
• Der Heliand. Wege der Forschung CCCXXI. Co-ed. J. Eichhoff. Introduction, I. Rauch and J. Eichhoff, pp. VII-XIX. Wege der Forschung CCCXXI. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973.
• Linguistic Method: Essays in Honor of Herbert Penzl. Co-ed. G. F. Carr. Introduction: “Linguistic Method, A Matter of Principle,” I. Rauch, pp. 19-23 [=Janua Linguarum, Series Major 79]. The Hague: Mouton, 1979.
• The Signifying Animal: The Grammar of Language and Experience. Co-ed. G.F. Carr. Bloomington: The Indiana University Press, 1980.
• Language Change. Co-ed. G. F. Carr. Preface I. Rauch, pp. vii-x. Bloomington: The Indiana University Press, 1983.
• The Semiotic Bridge: Trends from California. Co-ed. G.F.Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989.
• The Old Saxon Language: Grammar, Epic Narrative, Linguistic Interference. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1992.
• On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods. Co-ed. G. F. Carr and R. Kyes. Preface I. Rauch, pp. v-vi [=Trends in Linguistics 68] Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,. 1992.
• Insights in Germanic Linguistics I. Methodology in Transition. Co-ed. G. F. Carr. Trends in Linguistics, vol 83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.
• Insights in Germanic Linguistics II. Classic and Contemporary. Co-ed. G.F. Carr. [=Trends in Linguistics 94.]. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.
• Across the Oceans. Studies from East to west in Honor of Richard K. Seymour. Co-ed. Cornelia Moore. Introduction: “Across Cultures, Across Disciplines,” I Rauch, xvii-xix. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1995.
• Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity. Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the IASS, Berkeley, California, June 12–18, 1994. Vols I & II. Co-ed. G.F. Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.
• Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.
• New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I. Co-ed G.F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 1999.
• New Insights in Germanic Linguistics II. Co-ed G. F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 2001.
• New Insights in Germanic Linguistics III. Co-ed G.F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 2002.
• The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 2003.
• The Phonology / Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German across Time. New York: Peter Lang Publishing . 2008.
• The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings. (2nd ed. rev.)New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 2011.
• BAG — Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. 2015.
• The American Journal of Semiotics, vol. 9, no.4 (1992), co-ed. G.F.Carr.
• “Wolfram’s Dawn-Song Series: An Explication.” Monatshefte LV (1963), 366-74.
• “A Problem in Historical Synonymy.” Linguistics 6 (1964), 92-98.
• “Staging in Historical Phonemics: GMC. *ô > OHG uo.” Linguistics 11 (1965), 50-56.
• “Phonological Causality and the Early Germanic Consonantal Conditioners of Primary Stressed Vowels.” Approaches in Linguistic Methodology. Ed. I. Rauch and C. T. Scott. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press (1967), 47-61.
• “Dimensions of Sound in Relation to an Early Hölderlin Poem.” Linguistics 34 (1967), 46-54.
• “The Heliand Versus 5-7 Again.” Folia Linguistica II (1968), 39-47.
• “Heliand i-Umlaut Evidence for the Original Dialect Position of Old Saxon.” Lingua 24 (1970), 365-73.
• “Das germanische reduplizierte Präteritum – Gunnar Bech.” Lingua 27 (1971), 367-81.
• “The Germanic Dental Preterite, Language Origin, and Linguistic Attitude.”Indogermanische Forschungen 77 (1972), 215-33.
• “‘Heliand’ i-Umlaut . . . ” reprinted in Der Heliand. Ed. J. Eichhoff and I. Rauch, Wege der Forschung CCCXXI. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (1973), 461-70.
• “Old High German Vocalic Clusters,” Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renee Kahane. Ed, B. J. Kachru et al. Urbana: University of Illinois Press (1973), 774-79.
• “Some North-West Germanic Dental Conditioners and Laryngeal Effect.” Husbanding the Golden Grain: Studies in Honor of Henry W. Nordmeyer. Ed. L. Frank and E. George. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan German Department (1973), 255-64.
• “Were Verbs in Fact Noun Subsidiaries?” Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Linguists. Ed. L. Heilmann. Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino (1974), 609-15.
• “Die phonologische Basis des Deutschen: unter- und überphonemische Faktoren.”Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik VI (1915), 62-71.
• “What Can Generative Grammar Do for Etymology?: An Old Saxon Hapax.” Semasia:Beiträge zur germanisch-romanischen Sprachforschung 2 (1975), 249-60.
• “Semantic Features Inducing the Germanic Dental Preterite Stem.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 5 (1975), 126-38.
• “Linguistic Method: Yesterday and Today.” ERIC ED 917 (1976), 18 pp
• “Where Does Language Borrowing End and Genetic Relationship Begin?” Approaches to Language. Ed. McCormack and Wurm. The Hague: Mouton (1978), 245-55.
• “Language-likeness.” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences. Vol. 8 (1978), 183-89.
• “Semiotics and Language.” The Language Quarterly (University of S. Florida). Vol. XVII (1978), 2-6.
• “Distinguishing Semiotics from Linguistics and the Position of Language in Both.” The Sign: Semiotics Around the World . Ed. R.W. Bailey et al.(1978), 328-34.
• “The State of the Semiotics Curriculum.” Semiotic Scene. Vol. 2, no. 4 (1978), 151-55.
• “Semantic Naturalness in Word-Building: East German Nur-.” Linguistic Method: Essays in Honor of Herbert Penzl. Ed. I.Rauch and G.F. Carr. The Hague: Mouton (1979), 13-17.
• “The Language-Inlay in Semiotic Modalities.” Semiotica 25 (1979), 67-76.
• “First-Language Syntax in the New High German of Swiss Authors.” Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik. Vol. 9. Ed. M. Burkhard and G. Labroisse (1979), 23-32.
• “What is Signifying?” The Signifying Animal: The Grammar of Language and Experience. Ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr. Bloomington: The Indiana University Press (1980), 1-8.
• “Between Linguistics and Semiotics: Paralanguage.” The Signifying Animal: The Grammar of Language and Experience. Ed. I. Rauch and G F. Carr. Bloomington: The University of Indiana Press (1980), 284-89.
• “Robert Walser’s ‘Van Gogh’: Ich Allein oder Wir Alle? Studie zur linguistischen und literarischen Interpretation.” Akten des VI. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, Basel. Co-author M. Burkhard (1980), 291-97.
• “Inversion, Adjectival Participle, and Narrative Effect in Old Saxon.” Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 104 (1981), 22-30.
• “Semiotics in Search of Method: Narrativity.” Semiotica 34 (1981), 167-76.
• “What is Cause?” The Journal of Indo-European Studies 9 (1981), 319-29.
• “The State of the Semiotics Curriculum II.” Semiotic Scene 4 (1981), 64-77.
• “Toward a Schwa in Gothic.” Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur(Tübingen) 103 (1981), 392-401.
• “Historical Analogy and the Peircean Categories.” Proceedings of the III International Conference on Historical Linguistics. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Ed. P. Maher) (1982), 359-67.
• “Uses of the Germanic Past Perfect in Epic Backgrounding” The Journal of Indo-European Studies 10 (1982), 301-14.
• “Evolution in a Semantic Set: Text, Discourse, Narrative.” Language Change. Ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr. Bloomington: The Indiana University Press (1983), 28-38.
• “The Semiotic Paradigm and Language Change.” Semiotics 1981. Ed. J. Deely and M. Lenhart. New York: Plenum (1983), 193-200.
• “On the Modality of the Article.” Monatshefte 75 (1983), 156-62.
• “‘Symbols Grow’: Creation, Compulsion, Change.” American Journal of Semiotics 3 (1984), 1-23.
• “Semiotists on Semiotists: The Heartbeat of the Sign.” Semiotica 55 (1985), 227-50.
• “Syntax des Altsächsischen.” Sprachgeschichte: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung. Ed. W. Besch, O. Reichmann, S. Sonderegger. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter (1985), 1089-93.
• “Semiotics and Linguistics.” Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. Ed. T. A. Sebeok et al. Berlin: Mouton/de Gruyter (1986), 912-920.
• “Language and Other Sign Systems.” Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. Ed. T. A. Sebeok et al. Berlin: Mouton/de Gruyter (1986), 433-438.
• “The Mendacious Mode in Modern German.” Els Oksaar Festschrift. Ed. Hartwig Wittje. Tubingen: Gunter Narr (1986), 343-351.
• “Evidence of Language Change.” Research Guide for Language Change. Ed. E. Polome. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1990), 37-70.
• “The Impact of Language (Morphology) on Luther: Sapir-Whorf Redux.” Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polome. Ed. M. A. Jazayery and W. Winter. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1988), 535-549.
• “Peirce, Saussure, Uexküll.” Proceedings of the III International Congress of the History of Linguistics (Princeton University, 19–23 August 1984). Ed. L. G. Kelley et al. Amsterdam: Benjamins (1987), 575-583.
• “Old Saxon hell, Drawl, and Silence.” Althochdeutsch: Festschrift für Rudolf Schutzeichel. Ed. R. Bergmann. H. Tiefenbach, L. Voetz. Heidelberg: Carl Winter (1987), 1145-1151.
• “Peirce: ‘With No Pretension to Being a Linguist.’” Semiotica. 65 (1987) 29-43.
• “How Do Germanic Linguistic Data React to Newer Literary Methods?” Germania: Comparative Studies in the Old Germanic Languages and Literatures. Ed. D. Calder and T. Craig Christy. Wolfeboro, NH: D. S. Brewer (1988), 97-111.
• “The Sausurrean Axes Subverted.” dispositio. XII (1988) 35-44.
• “San Francisco Bay Area German: A Pilot Study.” Co-author with BAG Graduate Student Group. Monatshefte. 80 (1988) 94-102.
• “Is There an Aspect Distinction in Certain Strong/Weak Verb Alternations? Evidence from German in the San Francisco Bay Area” Co-author with BAG Graduate Student Group. Semper Idem et Novus: Festschrift for Frank Banta. Ed. F.G. Gentry et al. Goppingen: Kummerle Verlag (1988), 433-443.
• “Language Change in Progress: Privacy and Firstness,” The Semiotic Bridge: Trends from California. Ed. I. Rauch & G F. Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1989), 375-383.
• “Medicine and Semiotics,” Bochum Publications in Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics, Vol 10: Semiotics in the Individual Sciences. Ed. W. Koch. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. Norbert Brockmeyer (1990) 299-317.
• “On the Nature of Firsts in Language Change,” Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Linguists. Ed. W. Banner, J. Schildt, D. Viehweger. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (1991) 1432-1434.
• “Basler Rezept I: Method, Medical Code, and the Polysemous Symptom,” Herbert Kolb Festschrift. Ed. Klaus Matzel and Hans-Gert Roloff. Bern: Peter Lang A. G. (1989), 523-27.
• “Computerizing the Bay Area German Project,” Co-author B. Schiffman and G. Trauth.American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures. vol. no 2 (July 1989) 177-198.
• “Bilingual Pragmatics: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area German Project,” Co-author with BAG Graduate Student Group. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik LVII(1990) 295-305.
• “An Unexploited Rule for Morphological Naturalness,” Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Western Conference on Linguistics II. Ed. Vida Samiian et al. Fresno: California State University Department of Linguistics (1990) 277-286,
• “Semiotics: (No) canon, (no) theses,” Semiotica 86 (1991) 85-92.
• “Early New High German e-Plural,” Beiträtge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur. (Tubingen) 113 (1991) 367-383.
• “Another Old English – Old Saxon Isogloss: (REM) Activity,” De Gustibus: Essays for Alain Renoir. In Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition, 10, ed. J. M. Foley. New York: Garland (1992) 480-493.
• “Old Saxon Barred Vowel,” On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods. Ed. I. Rauch, G.F. Carr, R. Kyes, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1992) 245-252.
• “Icon Deconstruction and Icon Construction,” in: Signs of Humanity/ L’Homme et ses signes I-III. Ed. G. Deladelle et al.. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, 401-405.
• Deconstruction, Prototype Theory and Semiotics,” The American Journal of Semiotics 9, no. 4 (1992) 129-38.
• “Discourse, Space, Writing, “The American Journal of Semiotics 9, no.4 (1992) 5-10.
• “The Old English Genesis B Poet: Bilingual or Interlingual?’ American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures v. 5, no. 2 (1993) 163-184.
• “Toward Germanic Schwa: Old Saxon Evidence,” Vielfalt des Deutschen. Ed. K. J. Mattheier, K-P. Wegera et al. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1993:61-66.
• “1994,” Semiotica 98 (1994) 157-62.
• “Linguistic Polygraphy and Linguistic Polyphony: Old Saxon /ie, uo/,” IV. Proceedings of the xv International Congress of Linguists. Ed. Andr6 Crochetière, Jean-Claude Boulanger and Conrad Ouellon. Quebec: Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 1994, 263-266.
• “IASS World Congresses: The Fifth,” Proceedings of the I Congresso Mundial de Semiotica y Comunicacion, Monterrey, Mexico (forthcoming).
• “Germanic Linguistics in the Post-Modern Age,” Insights in Germanic Linguistics I, Methodology in Transition. Ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr in the series Trends in Linguistics 83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995, 1-4.
• “Formal and Less Formal Rules, “Insights in Germanic Linguistics I,: Methodology in Transition. Ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr in series Trends in Linguistics 83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995, 265-273.
• “BAG IV: Phonological Interference,” (principal author with BAG students). In: Insights in Germanic Linguistics I, Methodology in Transition. Ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr Trends in Linguistics 83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995, 275-292.
• “Semiotics and Language,” Reprinted by The Language Quarterly in the Gedenkschrift for Dr. Albert Gessman .
• “Semiotic Pronominal Configurations: A Question of Pathological Language,” Semiosis.
• “English Phonetic Contrasts in San Francisco Bay Area German,” (Co-author with BAG students), in: Across the Oceans: Studies from East to West in Honor of Richard K. Seymour.Ed. I. Rauch and Cornelia Moore. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1995, 167-175.
• “My Language is the Sum Total of Myself: Humboldt and Peirce,”Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Sebeok. Ed. Norma Tasca. (Cruzeiro Semiotico, Revista Semestral Nr. 22-25) Porto, Portugal: Fundação Eng. Antonio de Almeida, 1995, 109-117.
• “Zwei Variationen von ‘politisch-korrektem’ Deutsch.” Ed. M.S. Batts. Akten des IX. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für germanistische Sprach-und Literaturwissenschaft (IVG). Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1996.
• “‘Symbols Grow’ II” in Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity: Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the IASS, Berkeley, 1994. Vol. I. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1996), 87-93.
• “BAG V: PC German,” (Co-author with BAG Graduate Student Group), Insights in Germanic Linguistics II: Classic and Contemporary. Ed. I.Rauch and G.F. Carr (Trends in Linguistics 94) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, (1996) 207-226.
• “Openness, Eco, and the End of Another Millenium,” in Reading Eco: A Pretext to Literary Semiotics. Ed. R. Capozzi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, (1997) 137- 146.
• “Babysitter/in, lernbehindert, and other German PC Terms” (Co-author with Arden Smith and Simona Yee), in German Studies in Honor of Anatoly Liberman, ed. by M. Berryman, K.G. Goblirsch and M.H. Taylor. NOWELE 31-32,(1997).
• “Feature Spreading in Old High German and Old Saxon: Umlaut, Monophthongization, Pragmatics,”890-New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I. Ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr. (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics 33) New York: Peter Lang Publishing (1999) 201-210.
• “Syntax des Altniederdeutschen (Altsächsisch)”, (expanded revision) in Sprachgeschichte: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung.Ed.W. Besch et al., Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, (2000) 1263-1269.
• “BAG VI: Toward a Grammar of German e-mail,” (Co-author with BAG German student group). New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I. Ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr. (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics 33).New York: Peter Lang Publishing (1999) 181-200.
• “Zum Gedenken an Herbert Penzl.” (Co-author with Karl Kaussen). Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 28 (1996) 9-24.
• “On the BBC/A&E Bicentennial ‘Pride and Prejudice,’” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 2(1997) 327-346.
• “BAG VI-2: Toward a Grammar of German Snail Mail,” (principal author with BAG students), New Insights in Germanic Linguistics II, ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing (2001) 147-158.
• “Analogy’s Hidden Triggers,” New Insights in Germanic Linguistics II, ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing (2001) 159-166.
• “Bible Epic, Saxon,” Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.M. Jeep. New York: Garland (2001) 56-59.
• “Paralanguage: Evidence from Germanic,” Semiotica 135 (2001) 147-156.
• “On the German Language of Civility/Vulgarity: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area,” (principal author with BAG students). Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 5 (2000): 175-198.
• “Herbert Penzl,” Internationales Germanisten Lexikon 1800-1950. (Co-author with G. F. Carr). Marbach: Arbeitsstelle für die Erforschung der Geschichte der Germanistik (2000).
• “Gothic h, r, hw and Ranked Constraints,” Verba et Litterae: Explorations in Germanic Languages and German Literature, ed. A. Wedel and H-J. Busch. Newark DL: Lingua Text (2002) 117-123.
• “Historical Pragmatics: Pervasive Evidence from Old Saxon,” New Insights in Germanic Linguistics III. ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing (2002): 211-219.
• “A Semiotic Panorama, Alamode Borrowing and Diverse German,” Semiotica, 141 (2002): 377-386.
• “On the German Language of Civility/Vulgarity: Evidence from Bonn,” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 8,2[2003]: 261-289.
• “Bag VIII. Emotion, Gesture, and Language,” (Principal author with BAG students).Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 10,1 (2005): 17-46.
• “The Newly Found Leipzig Heliand Fragment.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 11,1 (2006) 1-17.
• “BAG IX. Toward the Architecture of the Apology,” (Principal Author with BAG Students).Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 12,1(2007) 135-156.
• “Gender Semiotics, Anglo-Frisian wíf and Old Frisian Noun Gender,” in Old Frisian Philology [=special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik], ed. R. Bremmer et al, (2007): 367-77.
• “Translations of the Bible,” in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages,” ed. R. F. Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2010).
• “BAG X: Toward the Architecture of the Lie,” (Principal Author with BAG students).Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 15, 2 (2010) 53-89.
• “Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr. An Introduction to Old Frisian.” In: NOWELE: 60/61, (Jan. 2011) 199-203.
• BAG XI: Toward Human : Canine Communication” (Principal Author with BAG students).Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 16, 2 (2011) 203-254.
• “Exapted ‘oh’: How Does It Fit into the Prosodic Hierarchy?” in Vox Germanica: Essays in Germanic Languages and Literature in Honor of James E. Cathey, ed. Stephen Harris and Michael J. Harris et al. Tempe, AZ: The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2012) 85-90.
• “The Power and the Glory of Sound,” [= Eighth Sebeok Fellow Address] The American Journal of Semiotics 28.1-2 (2012) 5-17.
• “Hic et Nunc: Evidence from Canine Zoosemiotics.” Semiotica 196 (2013) 229-242.
• BAG XII: German Netspeak / Textspeak ,” (Principal Author with BAG students). Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 18,2 (2013)101-127.
• “On Gothic in the Computer Age,” NOWELE 67 (2014) 231-236.
• BAG XIII: “On Laughter: German and English Jokes” (Principal Author with BAG students). Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 19,2 (2014).
• “On Consonantal Conditioners Again and the Case of Rising Short Old Frisian IU” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 20, 1(2015)
• “Preface” in The Old Saxon Heliand: An Annotated English Translation by Tonya Kim Dewey. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press (2011).
• BAG--Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project. Peter Lang Publishing; 2015.
• Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.^[2] 2008.
• The Phonology/Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German across Time. Peter Lang Publishing. 2011.
• The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings. Second edition. Peter Lang Publishing. 2011.
• The Old Saxon Language. Grammar, Epic Narrative,Linguistic Interference. Peter Lang Publishing. 1967.
• The Old High German Diphthongization. A Description of a Phonemic Change'. Mouton & Company, 1967.
• Co-editor w Gerald F. Carr: 'Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity. Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the IASS.' Berkeley, CA.Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.

Insights in Germanic Linguistics I(1995),II(1996) Mouton de Gruyter; New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I(1999), II(2001), III(2002) Peter lang Publishing; The Signifying Animal: 
The Grammar of Language and Experience (1980) Indiana University Press; Language Change (1983 Indiana University Press); The Semiotic Bridge: Trends from California, Mouton de Gruyter (1989).

Recognition

• 2011 Eighth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow (Semiotic Society of America)
• 1998 Festschrift: Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch
• 1996 Honorary Member, American Association of Teachers of German
• 1994 President, Fifth Congress of the IASS
• 1985 Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Dayton
• 1982 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1981-83 President, Semiotic Society of America
• Life Member, Modern Language Association, Linguistic Society of America

References

External links

• Official website