An Introduction to the Gothic Language

Author:   William H. Bennett
Publisher:   Modern Language Association of America
Volume:   2
ISBN:  

9780873522953


Pages:   205
Publication Date:   30 January 1980
Format:   Paperback
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An Introduction to the Gothic Language


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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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Author:   William H. Bennett
Publisher:   Modern Language Association of America
Imprint:   Modern Language Association of America
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780873522953


ISBN 10:   0873522958
Pages:   205
Publication Date:   30 January 1980
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English & Gothic

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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


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 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


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William Bennett was a professor in the department of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Michigan and the author of 17 articles and four book chapters on Germanic linguistics.

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