Orrin W. Robinson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Orrin W. Robinson is involved.

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Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales

Orrin W. Robinson

Grimm Language addresses a number of issues in the Grimms’ fairy tales from a (Germanic) linguist’s point of view. In sections dealing with the Grimms’ use of regional dialect material, various grammatical constructions, and specific nouns and adjectives in their Children’s and Household Tales, the… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 10] 2010. xi, 190 pp.

Whose German?: The ach/ich alternation and related phenomena in ‘standard’ and ‘colloquial’

Orrin W. Robinson

The author addresses a number of issues in German and general phonology, using a specific problem in German phonology (the ach/ich alternation) as a springboard. These issues include especially the naturalness, or lack thereof, of the prescriptive standard in German, and the importance of… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 208] 2001. xi, 169 pp.

Robinson, Orrin W. 2014 Review of Kotin (2012): Gotisch: Im (diachronischen und typologischen) Vergleich Diachronica 31:2, pp. 286–290 | Review

Robinson, Orrin W. 2008 Review of Harbert (2007): The Germanic Languages Diachronica 25:1, pp. 122–129 | Review

Robinson, Orrin W. 2001 Review of Greule (1999): Syntaktisches Verbwörterbuch zu den althoch-deutschen Texten des 9. Jahrhunderts Studies in Language 25:2, pp. 376–379 | Review

Robinson, Orrin W. 1981 Rule ordering in a parsing model of phonology Phonology in the 1980’s, Goyvaerts, Didier L. (ed.), pp. 555–576 | Article