The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, ReadingsThis book is designed for students and scholars of the oldest known language, with a sizable data corpus belonging to the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian language group. The Gothic Language is seminal to the history of the study of each of these languages. Gothic grammar is a standard text in courses on Indo-European and general linguistics, since Gothic serves as the prototype Germanic language in the study of comparative world language typologies. Particularly pan-Germanic is the innermost core of the grammar, the genetic phonology, which is reconstructed within the more recent approaches of Laryngeal and Glottalic Theories. Most challenging to traditionalist viewpoints is the total novel restructuring of Gothic synchronic phonology via current theoretical approaches such as underspecification theory and optimality theory. 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. |
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ablaut active adjective afar áins alternate assimilated atta áuk baúrgs consonant consonantized default desinences diphthong displays EGmc feminine filu final forms fricative further genetic genitive Germanic glottal Gothic gups hand iconic Iēsus imma indic inflectional inheritance izē izwis Jah qap language lowering manna masc masculine miþ neut neuter nominative noun NWGmc occurs PGmc phonetic plural position prep pres present pret preterite pron pronoun prop relative respectively root rule saei sái shows singular Sound stop stressed strong strong noun subjunctive suffix sunus swaswē syllable tree triggered untē verb vocalic vowel warp weak writing yields þái þáim þamma þan þana þata þatei þis þō þuk þus