Irmengard Rauch (born 1933 in Dayton, Ohio) is a linguist and semiotician.
She is Professor Emeritus of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she held a position in the Department of German from 1982 until her retirement.
[1] She completed her undergraduate work at the University of Dayton, took an M.A.
Her dissertation was published by Mouton in 1967 under the title, The Old High German Diphthongization: a description of a phonemic change.
She is the editor of the book series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics;[3] Berkeley Models of Grammars; Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures; co-editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis.