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THE GOTHIC LANGUAGE - IRMENGARD RAUCH KARTONIER...

The 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 in full paradigmatic display  its
understanding is enhanced by the application of underspecification theory and the use of
inheritance networks  a computational linguistic concept. Brief Syntactic Considerations
concluding the grammar present a network of head-driven phrase structures. 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  definitions of
linguistic technical terms  a bibliography  and an index complete this volume.

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