Bøker av Irmengard Rauch

Selected Writings of Irmengard Rauch collects various writings authored by Irmengard Rauch on contemporary and historical Germanic linguistic phenomena, particularly the principal North, East, and West Germanic dialects.

Provides the reader with insight into phonological methods from the Prague Structuralism and Chomskyan Generativism of the last seventy-five years to an array of today's non-linear approaches by applying them to given phonological changes that act as leitmotifs in the research of German sounds through time.

The sixteen chapters comprising this book on the Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project offer over twenty-five years of research into the changing language of native speakers and first-generation American-German speakers residing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Suitable for students and scholars of the oldest known language with a sizeable corpus, belonging to the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian language clade, this book brings the reader into the ambience of the fourth-century Goths.