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This volume investigates a wide range of topics in the study of Gothic, the oldest Germanic language to be attested in any substantial texts. It covers issues in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, derivational morphology, verbal syntax, and discourse structure
List of contents
- 1: Carla Falluomini: Linguistic contacts and exchanges between Ostrogoths and Romans
- 2: Charles Lock and Magnús Hreinn Snædal: The Codex Argenteus: Some English aspects and enigmas
- 3: Brendan Wolfe: Greek nominal compounds in the Gothic Gospels
- 4: Robert B. Howell: What do we really know about Gothic breaking? On the problem of consonantally conditioned vowel mutations
- 5: D. Gary Miller: Gothic -ei and -iþa: A prosodic difference
- 6: Patrick V. Stiles: Gothic jains, OE geon*, OHG jener, and congeners
- 7: Luzius Thöny: Gothic fidur-dogs 'four days old' and some traces of denominal s-stems in Germanic
- 8: Sheila Watts: A prefix - particle verb cycle for Germanic?
- 9: Arturas Ratkus: Linearization of adnominal possessives in Gothic: A comparative investigation
- 10: Wayne Harbert: Gothic translations of Greek relative pronouns
- 11: Gisella Ferraresi: Temporally anaphoric nu and þan as discourse-structuring elements in Gothic
- 12: Jared S. Klein: Discourse articulation in the Gothic Gospels, with notes on the treatment of the same phenomenon in the Classical Armenian and Old Church Slavic versions
About the author
Jared S. Klein is Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics, Classics, and Germanic and Slavic Languages at the University of Georgia, Athens, where he teaches Sanskrit, Gothic, Classical Armenian, the comparative grammar of Greek and Latin, historical linguistics, and Indo-European. He is interested in Indo-European discourse structure as well as the comparative grammar of those old Indo-European languages whose earliest texts are translations from the Greek New Testament.
Arturas Ratkus is Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Vilnius. His main research area is in historical linguistics, with a focus on the history of Germanic languages, the history of English, linguistic variation, reconstruction, and morphological and syntactic theory. He draws on Gothic material in investigating problems of determination, word order, and morphological and lexical variation.
Summary
This volume investigates a wide range of topics in the study of Gothic, the oldest Germanic language to be attested in any substantial texts. It covers issues in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, derivational morphology, verbal syntax, and discourse structure
