An Introduction to the Gothic Language
- Author: William H. Bennett
- Pages: xv & 190 pp.
- Published: 1980
- ISBN: 9780873522953 (Paperback)
The cloth edition of this title is out of print.
“One must welcome the initiative of the Modern Language Association in making such a useful—and quite beautifully-produced—textbook more widely available.”
—Modern Language Review
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.
