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Richard Page
Director of the Program in Lingusitics
Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
Department of German and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Pennsylvania State University
311 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-5481
E-mail: brp3@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Germanic linguistics, historical linguistics, language change, language contact, Pennsylvania German, and phonology.
Recent Publications:
On the Irregularity of Open Syllable Lengthening in German. Historical Linguistics 2005: Selected papers from the 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Madison, 31 July–5 August 2005. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins (2007): 337-350.
(with Joshua R. Brown) The Big Valley Oral History Project: Language Attitudes toward Pennsylvania German in Big Valley. Yearbook for German-American Studies 42 (2007): 125-140.
The synchrony and diachrony of vowel length in English and Dutch. Diachronica 23.1 (2006): 61-104.
(with Philip Baldi). Review article on Europa Vasconica-Europa Semitica. BY THEO VENNEMANN, GEN. NIERFELD; EDITED BY PATRIZIA NOEL AZIZ HANNA. (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 138), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2003. Pp. xxii, 977. Lingua. 116 (2006): 1183-2220.
(with Mark L. Louden). Stable Bilingualism and Phonological (Non)Convergence in Pennsylvania German. ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism, James Cohen, Kara T. McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, and Jeff MacSwan. Somerset, MA: Cascadilla Press, (2005): 1384-1392.
“Hesselman’s Law, Prokosch’s Law, and Moraic Conservation in the Germanic Quantity Shift.” Journal of Germanic Linguistics 13 (2001): 231-255.
“Double Consonant Graphs in the Ormulum.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis 5 (2000): 245-271.
“The Germanic Verschärfung and Prosodic Change.” Diachronica 16 (1999): 297–334.
“On Notker’s Anlautgesetz.” In Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch, ed. by Gerald F. Carr, Wayne Harbert and Lizhua Zhang. New York: Peter Lang (1999): 305–309.