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Underspecification, utilizing inheritance trees, also infuses the inflectional morphology, which admits a non-configurational syntax with verb-headed clauses. This book also brings the reader into the ambience of the fourth-century Goths. Readings from the Wulfilian bible, the extant eight pages of the Skeireins, together with a glossary, a bibliography and index, complete this volume..
The present work is designed to provide a carefully graded introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of the Gothic language. The material is presented in a way that I have found very effective in my teaching of other languages over the years, with enough examples and exercise material to lead the student to a rapid and intelligent reading of the extant texts. In addition to this purely practical goal, I have also tried to clarify, to the extent possible, the aspectual nature of the Gothic verb, a subject somewhat neglected in the textbooks currently available in English. . . . Because the study of Gothic is usually undertaken by students of Germanic or Indo-European philology, I have includ...
Excerpt from A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language With Especial Reference to English and German The remains of the language ar in several respects such as to make them specially suitabl for study by beginners in comparativ study of language, and especially by students wishing to obtain a thuro knowledge of the English language. Gothic is a sister speech to English, it is the oldest of the Teutonic family. The Gothic Bible is several centuries older than any record of the other sister speech es. The student of language entering on the study of fonology finds here an admirably simpl fonetic system, which leads the way at onse to an understanding of those fonetic changes which appear s...
Reproduction of the original: A Gothic Grammar by Wilhelm Braune