An Introduction to the Gothic Language Author(s): William H. Bennett
Pages: xv & 190 pp.
Published: 1980
ISBN: 9780873522953
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
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.
