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Studies in Gothic is a collection of twelve cutting edge chapters on the Goths and their language. The topics it covers are highly varied and include sociolinguistics, history, translation, phonology, derivational morphology, etymology, verbal syntax, word order, linguistic theory, and discourse structure. Individual chapters examine Gothic–Latin bilingualism in sixth-century Italy, some hitherto unsuspected aspects of the production of the first edition of the Codex Argenteus associated with England, and the translations of Greek nominal compounds in the Gospels. Phonological and morphological treatments deal with vowel lowering (‘breaking’), offer a prosodic analysis of the distinction between abstract nouns in -ei and -iþa, reconstruct the original shape of the ‘yon’-word in Proto-Germanic, and study the morphology and derivational history of the word fidurdōgs ‘four days old’. Syntactic contributions treat the development of verb + particle constructions in Gothic and Old Saxon and attempt to discern the order of noun plus adnominal possessive based in particular on those instances where the adnominal is introduced in the absence of such a form in the Greek text. Linguistic theory is brought to bear in the analysis of the complex and in part cross-linguistically unparalleled markers of Gothic relative clauses. The volume concludes with two contributions dealing with discourse structure. The first studies the particles nu and þan in their dual roles as anaphoric elements (‘now’ and ‘then’) and as discourse particles, while the final chapter treats the system of discourse articulation as a whole in the Gothic Gospels.
Studies in Gothic is a collection of twelve cutting edge chapters on the Goths and their language. The topics it covers are highly varied and include sociolinguistics, history, translation, phonology, derivational morphology, etymology, verbal syntax, word order, linguistic theory, and discourse structure. Individual chapters examine Gothic–Latin bilingualism in sixth-century Italy, some hitherto unsuspected aspects of the production of the first edition of the Codex Argenteus associated with England, and the translations of Greek nominal compounds in the Gospels. Phonological and morphological treatments deal with vowel lowering (‘breaking’), offer a prosodic analysis of the distinction between abstract nouns in -ei and -iþa, reconstruct the original shape of the ‘yon’-word in Proto-Germanic, and study the morphology and derivational history of the word fidurdōgs ‘four days old’. Syntactic contributions treat the development of verb + particle constructions in Gothic and Old Saxon and attempt to discern the order of noun plus adnominal possessive based in particular on those instances where the adnominal is introduced in the absence of such a form in the Greek text. Linguistic theory is brought to bear in the analysis of the complex and in part cross-linguistically unparalleled markers of Gothic relative clauses. The volume concludes with two contributions dealing with discourse structure. The first studies the particles nu and þan in their dual roles as anaphoric elements (‘now’ and ‘then’) and as discourse particles, while the final chapter treats the system of discourse articulation as a whole in the Gothic Gospels.
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