Gothic Online (a course by Todd B Krause and Jonathan Slocum)

[llama_nom]

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/lrc/eieol/gotol-TC.html

Look what I just found!  A complete course for beginners with 
paradigms, syntactical notes, historical background sketches, and a 
chapter on Crimean Gothic with a translation of Busbeque's letter 
and a discussion of the phonology of Crimean Greek.  Lots of great 
stuff.  I've just a few quibbles, mainly that some points about 
syntax use examples where the Gothic is a perfect match for the 
Greek (and thus possibly an imitation of the Greek), without 
mentioning this fact:

Ch. 2 "Luke 2.49 also begins with an interesting collocation: hva 
þatei sokideduþ mik? The phrase hva þatei is a compressed 
phrase 'what is this?', the þata then pointing to what follows, 
hence the relative marker ei. This phrase has, by the time of the 
Gothic text, become frozen as a way of saying 'why'. A similar 
development happened within Latin during the Middle Ages, where quid 
est quod -- literally 'what is (this, the fact) that...' -- came 
simply to denote 'why'."

Ch. 3 "The syntax of John 6.14 is similarly noteworthy: 
gasaíhvandans þoei gatawida táikn Iesus, literally 'seeing the-which-
(Jesus)-did miracle', where the relative clause has been pulled to 
the front, before its actual antecedent. This fronting of the 
relative clause is common to many of the Indo-European languages, 
including Sanskrit and even its modern daughters, such as Hindi."

But in the section on "historical present" tense, agreement and 
disagreement with the Greek text is noted as in Streitberg 299.1.  
But on the whole, very worthwhile.

Llama Nom





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