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Rauch, Irmengard was born on April 17, 1933 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Konrad and Elsa (Knott) Rauch.
(This book, the first grammar of the Old Saxon language wr...)
This book, the first grammar of the Old Saxon language written in English, is self-contained with its inclusion of selected readings from the Heliand epic and appropriate comparative readings from two interference dialects, Old High German and Old English. It introduces the reader, regardless of degree of linguistic training, to the basic structure of a Germanic dialect. As a diachronic synchrony (variation and change within the Old Saxon time frame), The Old Saxon Language is largely dictated by cognitive strategies needed to unravel semantically a sentence or larger piece of discourse. A semantic focus pervades the entire grammar, which proceeds in the best Berkeley tradition of prompting the student to mingle intellectually with researching faculty. Thus, many of the most sophisticated research problems surrounding the study of Old Saxon are addressed.
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(The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typo...)
The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings, now in its second edition, is designed for students and scholars of the oldest known language with a sizeable corpus, belonging to the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian language clade. The Gothic language is seminal to the history of the study of each of these languages. Gothic grammar is a standard text in courses on Indo-European and general linguistics since Gothic serves as the prototype Germanic language in the study of historical comparative world language typologies. Particularly pan-Germanic is the innermost core of the grammar, the genetic phonology, which is reconstructed within the most recent approaches of laryngeal and glottalic theories. Most challenging to traditional viewpoints is the total novel restructuring of Gothic synchronic phonology via current theoretical approaches such as underspecification theory and optimality theory. While the Gothic inflectional morphology is rendered in full paradigmatic display, its understanding is enhanced by the application of underspecification theory and the use of inheritance networks, a computational linguistic concept. Brief «Syntactic Considerations» concluding the grammar present a network of head-driven phrase structures. This book also brings the reader into the ambience of the fourth-century Goths. Readings from the Wulfilian Bible, the extant eight pages of the Skeireins, together with a glossary, definitions of linguistic technical terms, a bibliography, and an index complete this volume.
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( This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch, a widel...)
This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch, a widely known and respected scholar of semiotics and linguistics, provides a lucid narrative on the nature of both subjects, revealing their symbiotic relationship through concrete, data-based application. Rauch shows, with many practical examples, how to conduct semiotic analyses of language, narrative, texts, and discourse. In Part One, Semiotic Insights, she introduces the reader to the fundamental tenets and metatheory of the fields of linguistics and semiotics. She explores the multifaceted cooperation and tension between them, their shared threads and subthemes, the role of language in both, the tools of each discipline, and their relationship to other disciplines, especially biology and medicine. In Part Two, The Data Do the Talking, hard linguistic data are exposed and analysed within the semiotic paradigm. Using well-proven linguistic tools, Rauch's semiotic method lends insight into the dynamics of how language changes and grows.
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(This book is designed for students and scholars of the ol...)
This book is designed for students and scholars of the oldest known language, with a sizable data corpus belonging to the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian language group. The Gothic Language is seminal to the history of the study of each of these languages. Gothic grammar is a standard text in courses on Indo-European and general linguistics, since Gothic serves as the prototype Germanic language in the study of comparative world language typologies. Particularly pan-Germanic is the innermost core of the grammar, the genetic phonology, which is reconstructed within the more recent approaches of Laryngeal and Glottalic Theories. Most challenging to traditionalist viewpoints is the total novel restructuring of Gothic synchronic phonology via current theoretical approaches such as underspecification theory and optimality theory. Underspecification, utilizing inheritance trees, also infuses the inflectional morphology, which admits a non-configurational syntax with verb-headed clauses. This book also brings the reader into the ambience of the fourth-century Goths. Readings from the Wulfilian bible, the extant eight pages of the Skeireins, together with a glossary, a bibliography and index, complete this volume.
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Rauch, Irmengard was born on April 17, 1933 in Dayton, Ohio, United States. Daughter of Konrad and Elsa (Knott) Rauch.
Student, National University Mexico, 1954. Bachelor of Science with honors, University Dayton, 1955. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1957.
Postgraduate (Fulbright fellow), University Munich, Federal Republic Germany, 1958. Doctor of Philosophy, University Michigan, 1962.
She is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.1979-1980. 1982–present. Previously at the University of Illinois (1968-1982). The University of Pittsburgh (1966-1968).
The University of Wisconsin (1962-1966).
She is the editor of the book series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics;Berkeley Models of Grammars. Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Company-editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis. 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 1981-1983 President, Semiotic Society of America Life Member, Modern Language Association, Linguistic Society of America.
(The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typo...)
(This book, the first grammar of the Old Saxon language wr...)
( This collection of articles by Irmengard Rauch, a widel...)
(This book is designed for students and scholars of the ol...)
(Book by Rauch, Irmengard)
Member Linguistics Society of America, Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers German (honorary), Society for Germanic Philogy, Philogical Association of the West Coast, Phonetics Association, Semiotic Society of America (president 1982-1983), Semiotic Circle of California (founder), International Association for Semiotic Studies (president, director 5th congress 1994), Alpha Sigma Tau, Delta Phi Alpha.
Married Gerald F. Carr, June 12, 1965. Children: Christopher, Gregory.