Garry Davis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of German
Curtin Hall 895
Tel. 414-229-4942/4948 (w)
Tel. 414-332-1924 (h)
My office hours for Sem. I, 2008 are: T/R 11:00-11:50 and T
3:00-3:20.
Courses I often teach:
1988.The Origin of Middle Dutch -ster. In: Papers from the Third Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies. Ed. by Ton J. Broos, 231-235. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
1991.The Word sheep in the West Germanic Languages. Indogermanische Forschungen 96. 118-135.WGmc. Word for Sheep, pdfversion
1991. Some Apparent Cases of Submorphemic Attractions in Early Dutch and the Older Germanic Languages. In: Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1989. Issues and Controversies, Old and New. Ed. by Thomas F. Shannon and Johan P. Snapper. (Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies, 4.), pp. 13-33. Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
1992. What's in a Word? On Integrating Recent Approaches to Secondary Associations, Submorphemic Units, and Morphological Segmentation. Word 43(2).197-216. What's in a Word?, pdfversion
1992. Old English -estre and Proto-Germanic *-arjaz: The Origin and Development of two Agentive Suffixes in Germanic. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures 4 (2) 103-116.
1992. with Gregory K. Iverson. Explanation in Historical Linguistics. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 84.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1993. German in Contact with Native American Languages: The Moravians, 1742-1782. In: The German Language in America, 1683-1991. Ed. by Joseph C. Salmons, pp. 1-15. Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies: Madison, WI. German in Contact with Native American Languages, pdfversion
1994. with Gregory K. Iverson. thl- in Gothic. Historische Sprachforschung (ZVS) 107 (1). 155-64.
1994. with Gregory K. Iverson and Joseph C. Salmons. Blocking Environments in Old High German Umlaut. Folia Linguistica Historica 15 (1-2). 131-148.
1995.with Gregory K. Iverson. Segment Organization in the High German Consonant Shift. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures.7.2. 111-127. Segment Organization, pdfversion
1998. Mini-sound changes and etymology: Gothic bagms, mathl, and auhns. In:Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch, pp. 147-154: New York: Peter Lang Publishing.Mini-sound changes, pdf version
2000. Notes on the etymologies of English 'big' and Gothic 'ga-'. American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures. 12.1. 41-52.English 'big' and Gothic 'ga-', pdf version
2005. Entstehung und Alter der hochdeutschen Lautverschiebung in Wermelskirchen. Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik 72(3). 257-277. Entstehung paper, pdfversion
