Robert King

“Language and Culture in South Asia,” Linguistics in South Asia, Braj and Yamuna Kachru (editors). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Two chapters in Blackwell’s The Handbook of World Englishes: Ch. 1 “The Beginnings” and Ch. 2 “First Steps: Wales and Ireland.” Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

“Lessons from Yiddish for Nostratic,” Proceedings of Nostgratic Conference, Pecz, Hungary, 2005.

“A Different Side of Isaac Bashevis,” Jewish Affairs LIX (2004), 36-9.

“Linguists and Public Linguistics in the 21^st Century,” Linguistics on the Way into the Third Millennium, Proceedings of the 34^th Linguistics Colloquium (2002), pp. 175-192.

“The Poisonous Potency of Script: Hindi and Urdu,” International Journal of the Sociology of Language, CL (2001), 43-60.

”The Paradox of Creativity in Diaspora: the Yiddish Language and Jewish Identity,” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, XXXI (2001), 213-29.

“Lessons of Public Linguistics,” Southwest Journal of Linguistics, XVIII (1999), 1-14.

“The Czernowitz Conference in Retrospect,” in The Politics of Yiddish, Dov-Ber Kerler (editor). Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 1998, 41-49

“On the Uses of Yiddish Language Geography,” Shofar, XXVII (1998), 81-89.

“The Politics of Language Hate,” SALSA, VI (1998), 197-206.

“Raja Rao, Teacher,” in Word as Mantra: The Art of Raja Rao, Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., (editor). Delhi: Katha, 1998, 38-50.

“Yiddish Evidence for Early Uvular R in German,”Studies in Germanic Philology, X (1998), 279-90. (with Stephanie Beach).

“Teacher in Texas,” Discovery, vol. 14, 1997, 38-40.

Nehru and the Language Politics of India.  Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997.  256 pages.

“Should English Be The Law?,” The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1997.

“Should English Be the Law?,” in Our Times, Robert Atwan (editor). Boston: Bedford Books, 1999, 206-215. (Reprint of 1997 article in The Atlantic Monthly.)

“A Mantra for the 1990’s:  No More Guilt,” Texas Observer, April 7, 1995, 18-19.

Obituary for Archibald A. Hill, Language, CXX (1994).

“Early Yiddish Vowel Systems and the Question of Origins,” in The Field of Yiddish V, David Goldberg (editor).  New York:  Northwestern University Press and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1993, 87-98.

"Incident at Ayodhya," National Review, March 15, 1993, 24-26.

"Migration and Linguistics as Illustrated by Yiddish," in Reconstructing Languages and Cultures, Edgar C. Polomé and Werner Winter (editors) (=Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs, 58).  Berlin/New York:  Mouton-de Gruyter, 1992, 419‑439.

"German Literary Criticism under the Nazis," in Word and Deed:  German Studies in Honor of Wolfgang F. Michael, Thomas E. Ryan and Denes Monostory (editors).  New York:  Peter Lang, 1992, 207‑228.

"Broad Multicultural Goals are Worthy of Pursuit," op-ed piece, Austin American-Statesman, April 18, 1992.

"Community and Factionalism," Texas Observer, November 29, 1991, 14.

“Matisyohu Mieses,” in History of Yiddish Studies, Vol. 3 of Winter Studies in Yiddish, Dov-Ber Kerler (editor).  Chur,Switzerland:  Harwood Academic Publishers, 1991, 25-38.

"A konspiratsie un a frage-tseykhn," Oksforder Yidish, I (1990), 247-251.

A Walk on the Wild Side," Alcalde, LXXVIII (1990), 10-12.

"West from India: The Odyssey of Sir William Jones," The Library Chronicle, XX (1990), 49-63.

"Theoretical Models of Change:  The Transformational-Generative Model," in Research Guide on Language Change, Edgar C. Polomé (editor).  Berlin:  Mouton de Gruyter, 1990, 249-256.

"On the Origins of the s-Plural in Yiddish," in Studies in Yiddish, Paul Wechsler (editor). Tübingen:  Max Niemeyer, 1990, 47-53.

"Treason and Traitors:  The British Spies," Society/Transaction, XXVI (1989), 39-48.

“Treason and Traitors,” Society, vol. 35, 1998, pp. 329-38. (Reprint of 1989 article. This issue of Society was the 35th anniversary issue in which the editors reprinted what they voted the best article of each year).

"Competing Generalizations and Linguistic Change," in Languages and Cultures, M. A. Jazayery and W. Winter (editors).  Mouton de Gruyter, Amsterdam, 1988, 335-345.

"A Problem of Vowel Length in Early New High German," Monatshefte, LXXX (1988), 22-31.

"Two of Weinreich's Four Riddles Revisited," in Dialects of the Yiddish Language, Vol. 2 of Winter Studies in Yiddish, Dovid Katz (editor).  Oxford:  Pergamon Press, 1988, 85-98.

"Proto-Yiddish Morphology," in Origins of the Yiddish Language, Vol. 1 of Winter Studies in Yiddish, Dovid Katz (editor).  Oxford:  Pergamon Press, 1987, 73-81.

"The Weinreich Legacy," Fifth Annual Avrom-Nokhem Stencl Lecture in Yiddish Studies, Oxford University; Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1987.

"More about Uriel Weinreich's Four Riddles," Shofar, VI (1987), 33-37.

"The Language Issue Revisited," in India 2000:  The Next Fifteen Years, James R. Roach (editor).  The Riverdale Company, Riverdale, Maryland, 1986, 135-143.

"The Worst Thing that Has Ever Happened," Texas Observer, October 11, 1985.

"Humanistic Byways:  Yiddish for Beginners," The Texas Humanist, VII (1985), 35-36.

"Language:  Some People Revel in It," Texas Journal, VIII (1985-1986), 40-41.

"Yiddish and the Settlement History of Ashkenazic Jewry," The Mankind Quarterly, XXIV(1984), 393-425 (with Alice Faber).

"The Ubiquitousness of Language," Discovery, VII (1983), 18-21.

"The History of Final Devoicing in Yiddish," in The Field of Yiddish IV, Marvin I. Herzog, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and Dan Miron (editors).  Institute for the Study of Human Issues (ISHI), Philadelphia, 1980, 371-430.

"Linguistics and a University Education in the 80's," in Linguistics and the University Education, Grover Hudson (editor).  Department of Linguistics and Oriental and African Languages, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1980, 5-16.

"In Defense of Extrinsic Ordering," in The Application and Ordering of Grammatical  Rules,  Andreas Koutsoudas (editor).  Mouton, The Hague, 1976, 76-96.

"Rule Replication," in Linguistic and Literary Studies in Honor of Archibald A. Hill, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Edgar C. Polome, and Werner Winter (editors).  De Ridder, The Hague, 1976, 175-182.

"An Ordering Problem in Early Middle English," Glossa, IX (1975), 3-12 (with Marianne Cooley).

"Integrating Linguistic Change," in The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics,  Karl-Hampus Dahlstedt (editor).   Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, 1975, 47-69.

"Rule Insertion," Language, XLIX (1973), 551-578.

"Historical Change and Global Rules," Glossa, VII (1973), 179-188 (with Daniel A. Dinnsen).

Linguistica storica e grammatica generativa.  Bologna, il Mulino, 1973.  316 pages.  (Italian edition.)

"'Triuwe' in Gottfried's Tristan," Canadian Journal of Linguistics, XVII (1972), 159-166.

"A Note on Opacity and Paradigm Regularity," Linguistic Inquiry, III (1972), 535-538.

"Intermediate Stages in Nordic u-Umlaut," in Saga og Språk:  Studies in Language and Literature in Honor of Lee M. Hollander, John M. Weinstock (editor).  Jenkins Publishing Company, Austin, Texas, 1972, 187-200.

"Syncope and Old Icelandic i-Umlaut," Arkiv för nordisk filologi, LXXXVI (1971), 1-18.

Historische Linguistik und Generative Grammatik.  Frankfurt, Athenäum, 1971.  287 pages.  (German edition.)

"Umlaut in Modern German," Glossa, IV (1970), 3-21 (with Emmon Bach).

Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar.  New York, Prentice-Hall, 1969, 225 pages.

"Push Chains and Drag Chains," Glossa, III (1969), 3-21.

"Root versus Suffix Accent in the Germanic Present Indicative," Journal of Linguistics, IV (1968), 247-265.

"In Defense of Klopstock as Spelling Reformer:  A Linguistic Appraisal," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, LXVI (1967), 369-382

"Functional Load and Sound Change," Language, XLIII (1967), 831-852.

"A Measure for Functional Load," Studia Linguistica, XXI (1967), 1-14.

"On Preferred Phonemicizations for Statistical Studies," Phonetica, XV (1966), 22-31.

"Weakly Stressed Vowels in Old Saxon," Word, XXI (1965), 19-39.