An Introduction to the Gothic Language - Hardcover

Bennett, William Holmes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873522907 ISBN 13: 9780873522908

Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer, 1981

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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Review

"An introductory textbook of Gothic by a scholar of Professor Bennett's eminence is of course to be welcomed without qualification, the more so because it in no way duplicates its competitors in the field. The clarity of presentation is exemplary." --Modern Language Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873522907
• ISBN 13: 9780873522908
• Binding: Hardcover