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ISBN13: | 9780198896692 |
ISBN10: | 0198896697 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 432 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Language: | English |
700 |
Category:
Studies in Gothic
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 28 May 2024
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Short description:
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
Long description:
This volume investigates a wide range of topics in the study of Gothic, the oldest Germanic language to be attested in any substantial texts, some three centuries before the earliest Old English. It covers issues in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, derivational morphology, verbal syntax, and discourse structure. Individual chapters examine Gothic-Latin bilingualism in sixth-century Italy, some hitherto undiscovered 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 topics covered include vowel lowering (?breaking?), the distinction between abstract nouns in -ei and -i?a, the shape of the 'yon'-word in Proto-Germanic, and the morphology and derivational history of the word fidur-dogs 'four-days-old'. The syntactic studies explore the development of verb + particle constructions in Gothic and Old Saxon, attempt to discern the order of noun plus adnominal possessive, and analyse the complex and in part cross-linguistically unparalleled markers of Gothic relative clauses. The volume concludes with two chapters that explore discourse structure: the first studies the particles nu and ?an in their dual roles as anaphoric elements ('now' and 'then') and as discourse particles, while the second examines the system of discourse articulation as a whole in the Gothic Gospels.
Table of Contents:
Linguistic contacts and exchanges between Ostrogoths and Romans
The Codex Argenteus: Some English aspects and enigmas
Greek nominal compounds in the Gothic Gospels
What do we really know about Gothic breaking? On the problem of consonantally conditioned vowel mutations
Gothic -ei and -i?a: A prosodic difference
Gothic jains, OE geon*, OHG jener, and congeners
Gothic fidur-dogs 'four days old' and some traces of denominal s-stems in Germanic
A prefix - particle verb cycle for Germanic?
Linearization of adnominal possessives in Gothic: A comparative investigation
Gothic translations of Greek relative pronouns
Temporally anaphoric nu and ?an as discourse-structuring elements in Gothic
Discourse articulation in the Gothic Gospels, with notes on the treatment of the same phenomenon in the Classical Armenian and Old Church Slavic versions
The Codex Argenteus: Some English aspects and enigmas
Greek nominal compounds in the Gothic Gospels
What do we really know about Gothic breaking? On the problem of consonantally conditioned vowel mutations
Gothic -ei and -i?a: A prosodic difference
Gothic jains, OE geon*, OHG jener, and congeners
Gothic fidur-dogs 'four days old' and some traces of denominal s-stems in Germanic
A prefix - particle verb cycle for Germanic?
Linearization of adnominal possessives in Gothic: A comparative investigation
Gothic translations of Greek relative pronouns
Temporally anaphoric nu and ?an as discourse-structuring elements in Gothic
Discourse articulation in the Gothic Gospels, with notes on the treatment of the same phenomenon in the Classical Armenian and Old Church Slavic versions