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Book SynopsisThe Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings, now in its second edition, is designed for students and scholars of the oldest known language with a sizeable corpus, belonging to the English, German, Dutch, and Scandinavian language clade. 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 historical comparative world language typologies. Particularly pan-Germanic is the innermost core of the grammar, the genetic phonology, which is reconstructed within the most recent approaches of laryngeal and glottalic theories. Most challenging to traditional viewpoints is the total novel restructuring of Gothic synchronic phonology via current theoretical approaches such as underspecification theory and optimality theory. While the Gothic inflectional morphology is rendered i
Table of ContentsFigure I: Gothic Territory – Figure II: Codex Argenteus: Mark 3, 27–32 – Figure III: Skeireins: Leaf 8 ab – Figure IV: Crimean Gothic: Busbecq – Preface: Second Edition – Preface: First Edition – Symbols and Abbreviations – Life Among Wulfilian Goths – Consonantism of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic – Vocalism of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Germanic – The Gothic Phonological Word – Phonological Constraints I: Consonants – Phonological Constraints II: Vowels – The Gothic Morphological Word I: Nominal Inflection – The Gothic Morphological Word II: Verb Inflection – Readings – Glossary – Linguistic Technical Terms – Bibliography – Index.
