B. Richard Page
List of John Benjamins publications in which B. Richard Page is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2452-2120
Titles
Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel
Edited by B. Richard Page and Michael T. Putnam
This volume pays homage to the legacy of William D. Keel and the significant impact of his research on German in contact settings from myriad perspectives and traditions. It includes structural and sociolinguistic studies focusing on varieties of German spoken throughout the world, including… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 10] 2025. vi, 275 pp.
Investigating West Germanic Languages: Studies in honor of Robert B. Howell
Edited by Jennifer Hendriks and B. Richard Page
This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the… read more[Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 8] 2024. vi, 327 pp.
2025 Chapter 10. Optimizing gender of English loanwords in Pennsylvania Dutch Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 207–237 | Chapter
This case study investigates the gender assignment of English loanwords In Pennsylvania Dutch, a language that emerged among German speakers located primarily in Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. To do so, we analyze English loanwords collected by Buffington (1941) from a 30,000-word… read more
2025 Chapter 1. A lasting legacy: Honoring William D. Keel’s contributions to language contact research Varieties of German in Contact Settings: Studies in honor of William D. Keel, Page, B. Richard and Michael T. Putnam (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
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