An introduction to the Gothic language

Bennett, William H.

ISBN 10: 0873522907 / ISBN 13: 9780873522908

Published by The Modern Language Association of America, [New York, 1980

About this Item

Fourth edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [3], 190; full blue cloth; corners lightly bumped, else fine. A textbook for beginning students. "It presents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sample of the Codex Argenteus.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An introduction to the Gothic language
• Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America, [New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873522907
• ISBN 13: 9780873522908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language
  • Linguistics

About this title

Synopsis

This handbook was written specifically for beginning students. It presents twenty-seven graded readings, each accompanied by a vocabulary and an explanation of grammatical details; the final chapter provides a sample of the Codex Argenteus. Among the readings, the first seven are in effect preliminary exercises. The remaining twenty readings represent the Gothic Bible and the Skeireins . The external history of the language is also outlined, as well as the elements of phonetics, and the essentials of phonologic and analogic change.

About the Author

William Bennett was a professor in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of 17 articles and four book chapters on Germanic linguistics.