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Email: irauch@berkeley.edu Phone: 642-2003
Office: 5414 Dwinelle    

Ph.D., Michigan. Germanic linguistics, historical (Gothic, Old Saxon, Old /Middle/Early New High German) and contemporary (New High German, modern German dialects); linguistic fieldwork; socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to language variation and language change, contrastive analysis and linguistic methodology; linguistic archeology; paralanguage and semiotics (how verbal and non-verbal language signify). Since 1982 at Berkeley (previously at Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Illinois). Author: The Gothic Language. Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings. (2003); 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 (1999). Editor: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics; Berkeley Models of Grammars. Co-editor: Approaches in Linguistic Methodology (1967); Der Heliand (1973); Linguistic Method: Essays in Honor of Herbert Penzl (1979); The Signifying Animal: The Grammar of Language and Experience (1980); Language Change (1983); The Semiotic Bridge: Trends from California (1989); On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods (1992); Insights in Germanic Linguistics I (1995), II (1997); Across the Oceans (1995); Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity (1997); New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I (1999), II (2001), III (2002); Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. Articles in numerous scholarly journals. NEH/NSF grants; Outstanding Woman on Campus; Guggenheim Fellow; President, Semiotic Society of America; Distinguished Alumnus; President, Fifth Congress, International Association for Semiotic Studies; Who's Who in America; Founder/Director: Semiotic Circle of California, Bay Area German Project, Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. Festschrift: Interdigitations (1999).

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Publications
 

BOOKS

The Old High GermanDiphthongization: A Description of a Phonemic Change.JanuaLinguarum, Series Practica XXXVI. The Hague:Mouton. 1967.

Approaches in Linguistic Methodology. Co-ed. C. T.Scott. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.Introduction, I. Rauch and C. T. Scott, pp.3-8. 1967.

Approaches . . . . published in Spanish-language editionas 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 HerbertPenzl. Co-ed. G. F. Carr. Janua Linguarum, Series Major79. The Hague: Mouton, 1979.

The Signifying Animal: The Grammar of Language andExperience. Co-ed. G.F.Carr. Bloomington: The Indiana University Press,1980.

Language Change. Co-ed. G. F. Carr.Bloomington: The Indiana University Press, Preface I. Rauch, pp.vii-x. 1983.

The Semiotic Bridge: Trends from California. Co-ed.G. F. Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989.

The Old Saxon Language: Grammar, EpicNarrative, Linguistic Interference. New York: Peter LangPublishing, 1992.

On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods. Co-ed. G.F.Carr and R. Kyes. Trends in Linguistics vol. 68.Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Preface I. Rauch, pp. v-vi.1992.

Insights in Germanic Linguistics I. Methodology inTransition. Co-ed. G. F. Carr. Trendsin Linguistics,vol 83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter ,1995.

Insights in Germanic Linguistics II. Classic andContemporary. Co-ed. G.F. Carr. Trends inLinguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996.

Across the Oceans. Studies from East toWest in Honor of Richard K. Seymour. Co-edited with CorneliaMoore. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1995.

Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis inDiversity. Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the IASS,Berkeley, California, June 12-18, 1994. Co-ed.G.F. Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.

Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking.. Toronto,Buffalo, London: Univer-sity of Toronto Press, 1999.

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. with G. F. Carr. New York:Peter Lang Publishing, 2002

The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance andTypology, Readings. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2003.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNAL

The American Journal of Semiotics, vol. 9, no.4(1992), co-ed. G. F. Carr; general ed. Dean MacCannelland Juliet Flower MacCannell.

ARTICLES

"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. *o > OHG uo." Linguistics 11 (1965), 50-56.

"Phonological Causality and the Early Germanic ConsonantalConditioners of Primary Stressed Vowels." Approaches inLinguistic 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 HölderlinPoem." Linguistics 34 (1967), 46-54.

"The Heliand Versus 5-7 Again." Folia LinguisticaII (1968), 39-47.

"'Heliand' i -Umlaut Evidence for the OriginalDialect Position of Old Saxon." Lingua 24 (1970),365-73.

"Das germanische reduplizierte Präteritum - GunnarBech." Lingua 27 (1971), 367-81.

"The Germanic Dental Preterite, Language Origin, and LinguisticAttitude." Indogermanische Forschungen 77 (1972),215-33.

"'Heliand' i -Umlaut . . . . " reprinted in DerHeliand. Ed. J. Eichhoff and I. Rauch, Wege derForschung CCCXXI. Darmstadt: WissenschaftlicheBuchgesellschaft (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 LaryngealEffect." Husbanding the Golden Grain: Studies in Honor ofHenry W. Nordmeyer. Ed. L. Frank and E. George. AnnArbor: University of Michigan German Department (1973), 255-64.

"Were Verbs in Fact Noun Subsidiaries?" Proceedings ofthe Eleventh International Congress of Linguists. Ed. L.Heilmann. Bologna: Societa editrice il Mulino (1974),609-15.

"Die phonologische Basis des deutschen: unter- undüberphonemische Faktoren." Jahrbuch fürInternationale Germanistik VI (1975), 62-71.

"What Can Generative Grammar Do for Etymology?: An Old SaxonHapax." Semasia: Beiträge zur germanisch-romanischenSprachforschung 2 (1975), 249-60.

"Semantic Features Inducing the Germanic Dental PreteriteStem." Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 5(1975), 126-38.

"Linguistic Method: Yesterday and Today." ERICED 917 (1976), 18 pp.

"Where does Language Borrowing End and Genetic RelationshipBegin?" Approaches to Language. Ed. McCormackand Wurm. The Hague: Mouton (1978), 245-55.

"Language-likeness." Studies in the LinguisticSciences. Vol. 8 (1978), 183-89.

"Semiotics and Language." The LanguageQuarterly (University of S. Florida). Vol.XVII (1978), 2-6.

"Semiotics and Language," Selected for reprinting by TheLanguage Quarterly in the Gedenkschrift for Dr. AlbertGessman (forthcoming).

"Distinguishing Semiotics from Linguistics and the Position ofLanguage in Both." The Sign: Semiotics Around theWorld (1978), 328-34.

"The State of the Semiotics Curriculum." SemioticScene. Vol. 2, no. 4 (1978), 151-55.

"Semantic Naturalness in Word-Building: East German Nur-." Linguistic Method: Essays in Honor of HerbertPenzl. 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 SwissAuthors." Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neuerenGermanistik. Vol. 9. Ed. M. Burkhard and G. Labroisse(1979), 23-32.

"What is Signifying?" The Signifying Animal: TheGrammar of Language and Experience. Bloomington: TheIndiana University Press (1980), 1-8.

"Between Linguistics and Semiotics: Paralanguage." TheSignifying Animal: The Grammar of Language and Experience.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 OldSaxon." Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch 104 (1981),22-30.

"Semiotics in Search of Method: Narrativity." Semiotica. Vol. 34 (1981), 167-76.

"What is Cause?" The Journal of Indo-EuropeanStudies. Vol. 9 (1981), 319-29.

"The State of the Semiotics Curriculum II." SemioticScene. Vol. 4 (1981), 64-77.

"Toward a Schwa in Gothic." Beiträge zurGeschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur(Tübingen) 103 (1981), 392-401.

"Historical Analogy and the Peircean Categories." Proceedings of the III International Conference on HistoricalLinguistics. (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." Semiotics1981. 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: EinHandbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrerErforschung. Ed. W. Besch, O. Reichmann, S.Sonderegger. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter (1985),1089-93.

"Semiotics and Linguistics." Encyclopedic Dictionary ofSemiotics. Ed. T. A. Sebeok et al. Berlin:Mouton/de Gruyter (1986), 912-920.

"Language and Other Sign Systems." EncyclopedicDictionary of Semiotics. Ed. T. A. Sebeok et al.Berlin: Mouton/de Gruyter (1986), 433-438.

"The Mendacious Mode in Modern German." Els OksaarFestschrift. Ed. Hartwig Wittje. Tübingen:Gunter Narr (1986), 343-351.

"Evidence of Language Change." Research Guide forLanguage Change. Ed. E. Polomé. Berlin:Mouton de Gruyter (1990), 37-70.

"The Impact of Language (Morphology) on Luther: Sapir-WhorfRedux." Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of EdgarC. Polomé. Ed. M. A. Jazayery and W. Winter.Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1988), 535-549.

"Peirce, Saussure, Uexküll." Proceedings of theIII International Congress of the History of Linguistics(Princeton University, 19-23 August 1984). Ed. L. G. Kelleyet al. Amsterdam: Benjamins (1987), 575-583.

"Old Saxon hell, Drawl, and Silence." Althochdeutsch: Festschrift für RudolfSchützeichel. 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 LiteraryMethods?" Germania: Comparative Studies in the OldGermanic 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-authorwith BAG Graduate Student Group. Monatshefte 80(1988) 94-102.

"Is There an Aspect Distinction in Certain Strong/Weak VerbAlternations? Evidence from German in the San Francisco BayArea" Co-author with BAG Graduate Student Group. Semper Idem et Novus: Festschrift for Frank Banta.Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag (1988), 433-443.

"Language Change in Progress: Privacy and Firstness," in TheSemiotic Bridge: Trends from California. Ed. I. Rauch& G. F. Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1989),375-383.

"Medicine and Semiotics,"Bochum Publications in EvolutionaryCultural Semiotics, Vol 10: Semiotics in the IndividualSciences, ed. W. Koch. Bochum: Universitätsverlag Dr. NorbertBrockmeyer (1990) 299-317.

"On the Nature of Firsts in Language Change," Proceedings ofthe XIV International Congress of Linguists. Ed. W. Bahner, J.Schildt, D. Viehweger. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (1991)1432-1434.

"Basler Rezept I: Method, Medical Code, and the PolysemousSymptom," Herbert Kolb Festschrift. Ed. Klaus Matzeland 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 GermanicLinguistics and Literatures. vol. no 2 (July 1989)177-19

"Bilingual Pragmatics: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay AreaGerman Project," Principal author with BAG Graduate StudentGroup. Zeitschrift für Dialektologie undLinguistik LVII (1990) 295-305.

"An Unexploited Rule for Morphological Naturalness," Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Western Conference onLinguistics 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 i -Plural," Beiträge zurGeschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur.(Tübingen) 113 (1991) 367-383.

"Another Old English - Old Saxon Isogloss: (REM) Activity," De Gustibus: Essays for Alain Renoir. In Albert Bates LordStudies in Oral Tradition, vol. 10, ed. J. M.Foley. New York: Garland (1992) 480-493.

"Old Saxon Barred Vowel,"On Germanic Linguistics: Issues andMethods. edd. I. Rauch, G.F. Carr, R. Kyes, Berlin: Mouton deGruyter (1992) 245-252.

"Icon Deconstruction and Icon Construction," In: Signsof Humanity/L'Homme et ses signes I-III, ed. G. Deladelle etal. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992, 401-405.

"Semiotic Pronominal Configurations: A Question of PathologicalLanguage," Semiosis (in press).

"The Old English Genesis B Poet: Bilingual orInterlingual?" American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures . 5, no. 2 (1993)

"BAG IV: Phonological Interference," (principal author with BAGstudents). In: Insights in Germanic Linguistics I, Methodologyin Transition , ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr. Trends inLinguistics 83, 275-292. Berlin: Mouton deGruyter, 1995.

"Toward Germanic Schwa: Old Saxon Evidence," Vielfaltdes Deutschen . ed. K. J. Mattheier, K-P. Wegera et al. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1993:61-66.

"Deconstruction, Prototype Theory and Semiotics," TheAmerican Journal of Semiotics, vol. 9, no. 4 (1992) 129-38.

"Discourse, Space, Writing," The American Journal ofSemiotics vol. 9, no.4 (1992) 5-10.

"1994," Semiotica, vol. 98 (1994) 157-62.

"Linguistic Polygraphy and Linguistic Polyphony: Old Saxon /ie,uo/," in:Proceedings of the xv InternationalCongress of Linguists, IV: 263-266 edited by AndréCrochetière, Jean-Claude Boulanger and Conrad Ouellon.Quebec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1994.

"IASS World Congresses: The Fifth," Proceedings of the ICongresso Mundial de Semiotica y Comunicacion,Monterrey, Mexico (forthcoming).

"Germanic Linguistics in the Post-Modern Age," in: Insights in Germanic Linguistics I, Methodology in Transition, ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr in series Trends inLinguistics 83, 1-4. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,1995.

"Formal and Less Formal Rules," in: Insights inGermanic Linguistics I,Methodology in Transition, ed. I. Rauchand G.F. Carr in series Trends in Linguistics 83,265-273. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995.

"English Phonetic Contrasts in San Francisco Bay Area German,"(principal author with BAG students), in: Across theOceans: Studies from East to West in Honor of Richard K.Seymour, ed. I. Rauch and Cornelia Moore,167-175.Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1995.

"My Language is the Sum Total of Myself": Humboldt and Peirce,"in: Essaysin Honor of Thomas A. Sebeok, edited by NormaTasca, 109-117. (Cruzeiro Semiotico, Revista Semestral Nr. 22-25)Porto, Portugal:Fundação Eng. António deAlmeida, 1995.

"Zwei Variationen von 'politisch-korrektem' deutsch," ed. M.S.Batts. Akten des IX. Kongresses der InternationalenVereinigung für germanistische Sprach-undLiteraturwissenschaft (IVG) Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1996.

"Openness, Eco, and the End of Another Millenium," in ReadingEco: A Pretext to Literary Semiotics, ed. R.Capozzi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, (1997) 137-146.

"'Symbols Grow' II," Semiotics Around the World:Synthesis in Diversity, eds. I.Rauch and G.F. Carr. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter(1997), 87-93.

"Babysitter/in, lernbehindert, and other German PCTerms" (Principal 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.NOWELLE31/32 (1997): 337-343.

"BAG V: PC German," (principal author with BAG Students), Insights in Germanic Linguistics II: Classic andContemporary, ed. I.Rauch and G.F.Carr (Trends in Linguistics94) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, (1996) 207-226.

"Feature Spreading in Old High German and Old Saxon:Umlaut, Monophthongization, Pragmatics," in: New Insights in Germanic Linguistics ,ed. I.Rauch andG.F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing(1999),201-209.

"Syntax des Altniederdeutschen (Altsächsisch), (expandedrevision) in Sprach-geschichte: Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und ihrer Erforschung, ed. W.Besch et al., Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, (2000)1263-69.

"BAG VI: Toward a Grammar of e-mail," ( principal author withBAG students),New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I , ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr.New York: Peter Lang Publishing (1999), 181- 199.

"On the BBC/A & E Bicentennial 'Pride and Prejudice,'" Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics andSemiotic Analysis 2,2(1997) 327-346.

"Zum Gedenken an Herbert Penzl." (co-author with KarlKaussen). Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 28(2) 1996: 9-24.

"BAG VI-2: "Toward a Grammar of German Snail-Mail," (principalauthor with BAG students), New Insights in Germanic LinguisticsII. ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr. New York: Peter Lang Publishing (2001) 147-58.

"Analogy's Hidden Triggers," New Insights in GermanicLinguistics II. ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr. New York: PeterLang Publishing (2001).159-66.

"Bible Epic, Saxon," Medieval Germany: an Encyclopedia,ed. J. M. Jeep. New York: Garland (2001) 56- 59.

"Paralanguage: Evidence from Germanic," Semiotica 135(2001) 147-56.

"On the German Language of Civility/Vulgarity: Evidence from theSan Francisco Bay Area," (principal author with BAGstudents),Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics andSemiotic Analysis 5 (2000) 175-98

"Gothic h, r, hw and RankedConstraints," Verba et Litterae: Explorations in GermanicLanguages and German Literature, ed. A Wedel & H-JBusch. Newark: Lingua Text (2002).

"Historical Pragmatics: Pervasive Evidencefrom Old Saxon," New Insights in GermanicLinguistics III. ed. I. Rauch and G. F. Carr. NewYork: Peter Lang Publishing (2002). 211-219.

"A Semiotic Panorama, Alamode Borrowing,and Diverse German," Semiotica 141-1/4 (2002)377-386.

"On the German Language of Civility/Vulgarity: Evidence from Bonn," (principle author with BAG students), Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and SemioticAnalysis 8,2 [2003] 261-289.

"BAG VIII: Emotion, Gesture, Language," (principal author with BAG students), Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 10, 1 (2005) 17-45.

"Translations of the Bible," in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. R. F. Bjork, Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press).

"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, (in press).