B. Richard Page
List of John Benjamins publications for which B. Richard Page plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
Title
Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page
[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp. + index
Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Investigating West Germanic Languages Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 2–11 | Chapter
2024 Homorganic lengthening in late Old English revisited Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell, Hendriks, Jennifer and B. Richard Page (eds.), pp. 14–31 | Chapter
Minkova & Stockwell (1992) and Kruger (2020) claim that homorganic lengthening is limited to the environment before -ld and -nd, with only high vowels lengthening before -nd. This paper examines evidence in the Ormulum and from other sources for lengthening and finds ample evidence of regular… read more
2011 Gender assignment of English loanwords in Pennsylvania German: Is there a feminine tendency? Studies on German-Language Islands, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 151–162 | Article
Previous investigations have reported a feminine tendency in the assignment of grammatical gender for English loanwords in Pennsylvania German as well as in other German Sprachinseln languages located in Anglophone areas (e.g. Reed 1942). This study investigates whether or not there is a feminine… read more
2007 On the irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July - 5 August 2005, Salmons, Joseph C. and Shannon Dubenion-Smith (eds.), pp. 337–350 | Article
2006 The diachrony and synchrony of vowel quantity in English and Dutch Diachronica 23:1, pp. 61–104 | Article
This investigation of Open Syllable Lengthening in Middle English and Middle Dutch treats the changes as the result of listener-based reinterpretations of coarticulatory effects on vowel duration. OSL in English is a result of compensatory lengthening, which is analyzed as a hypocorrection. OSL in… read more
1999 The Germanic Verschärfung and Prosodic Change Diachronica 16:2, pp. 297–334 | Article
SUMMARY This investigation of Germanic Verscharfung distinguishes between two types of phonological change. Sound change affects only the phonetic features of a segment whereas prosodic change consists of a change in the rhythmic structure of a language. The fixing of initial stress in Germanic is… read more
1996 Report on the Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC 2) Madison, Wis., 26-28 April 1996 Diachronica 13:2, pp. 389–393 | Miscellaneous