An Introduction to the Gothic Language

✍ Scribed by William H. Bennett

• Publisher: The Modern Language Association of America
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 103
• Series: Introductions to Older Languages
• Edition: Paper edition
• Category: Library

✦ 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.

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