Introduction Post

[David]

Hi Justine,

Having studied Yiddish, Old High German, Gothic, etc., I admire your statement of commitment to "teaching the less taught languages".  There are certainly plenty of them.  

As far as digital Wright, do you know of this link:
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/goth_wright_about.html#images

Looks like the following is PDF of Wright:
http://books.google.com/books?id=PjlcAAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8

And I recently discovered this link to a number of other online Gothic resources:
http://www.lexilogos.com/english/index.htm

There's probably a bunch more great stuff out there too...  I am not at all a "technology person".

Lambdin is a wonderful book, with thorough, clear "lessons" (chapters); generous supply of biblical texts with full glossary; and a set of chapters on historical Germanic linguistics to boot!  One thing that I don't care for:  He dispensed with the tradition of supplying accents to disambiguate monophthong <ai'> vs. diphthong <a'i>, and <au'> vs. <a'u>.  To me this is disadvantageous to the new learner.

If you (or anyone on this list) happens to live in central Ohio, USA, please come and attend my monthly Gothic Language Reading Group at Ohio State University.  We are using Bennett's Intro to the Gothic language; it seemed to me like the best, most "accessible" way into the language for the audience we have here.  You might start with Bennett, but augment your study with Lambdin.

"Reading and enjoying the activity"--is a most worthy contribution!  We are certainly not into this stuff for the money.  (-;

Cheers,
David C.


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "underwoodjustine" <underwoodjustine at ...> wrote:
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> Hails all,
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> As requested by the welcome email, I would like to introduce myself.  My name is Justine, I am interested in endangered and extinct languages and linguistics (or "tugga-wissei" as the neologism list has it).  I am especially interested in Native American (specifically Cherokee) and Germanic languages.
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> Language extinction, preservation, and revival are my primary focus at the moment.  I have a BA in English and in theology and ministry.  I minored in biblical Greek (which has been helpful in studying Gothic) and Hebrew.  I hope to receive my master's in Linguistics and go on to teach the less-taught languages.
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> This group is an amazing find, and the amount of activity and history of posts is nothing short of remarkable.  Apologies in advance if my greatest contribution at this point is reading and enjoying the activity.
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> I do have a stereotypical newcomer question to pose: I am currently using Bennett's text and cautiously considering springing for Lambdin's...I have heard many good things about it but have not had a chance to flip through it and get an impression of my own.  has anyone here had experiences with both texts and, if so, can you offer me some insight?
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> Also, while I have been enjoying Wright's grammar in .TIF format, page by page, I wonder if anyone has published it as a single .PDF and I just haven't found it yet...?  Apologies if both of these questions have been addressed in previous posts.
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> Justine
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