Introduction Post

[Edmund]

Dear Justine,

The >Gotische Grammatik< by Braune, first published in 1880. is now in its twentieth edition, newly revised by Frank Heidermanns (2004). If you plan to acquire a copy of this excellent work, this is clearly the version to get, as the last edition by Ebbinghaus dates from 1981 and is thus out-of-date now. You can buy online, through amazon.de (the German version of amazon.com). If you already have an account with amazon.com, all of your personal info will come up in the German version, with the same format as the American version. Pretty painless to use.

You also mentioned the invented word "tugga-wissei" from a list of invented words. If I may comment, this seems like not the best choice to render 'linguistics'. The Gothic word 'tuggo' is extant only three times, and in each occurrence it means specifically 'tongue' not 'language.' The common word for 'language' in the Gothic Bible is 'razda' (cf. Old English 'reord'). Moreover, the element '-wissei' is extant only in 'mithwissei' ('conscience') -- I use the digraph 'th' here to render the letter eth, to use the Old English name. 'Mithwissei' is clearly a calque on Greek 'syneidesis' (lit. 'together-know-ing'). It would appear the Gothic coiner of this word translated part for part, and his choice of -wiss- to render -eid- was influenced by both meaning and form, eid- being, of course, cognate with Gothic wit-. The usual word for 'knowledge' in Gothic is 'kunthi' (neuter ja-stem). In light of the foregoing then, the form *razdakunthi would seem to be a better choice for 'linguistics'.

In any case, welcome to the discussion group.


--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Sigi Vandewinkel <sigivandewinkel at ...> wrote:
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> Archive.org has pdf versions of Wright's Grammar of the Gothic Language (1910), and A Primer of the Gothic Language (1899). 
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> Grammar:Â http://archive.org/details/grammargothicla00wriggoog
> Primer:Â http://archive.org/details/primerofgothicla00wriguoft
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> If you read German, digital copies of the various publications by Wilhelm Streitberg on Gothic can be tracked down fairly easily. His Gotisches Elementarbuch (1920) is available on the wulfila.be website (which has several more resources relating to Gothic). 
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> Elementarbuch:Â http://www.wulfila.be/lib/streitberg/1920/
> Gotischâ€"Griechischâ€"Deutsches Wörterbuch (1910): http://www.wulfila.be/lib/streitberg/1910/
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> the wulfila.be website:Â http://www.wulfila.be/
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> And finally, there's Wilhelm Braune's excellent Gotische Grammatik mit Lesestücken und Wörterverzeichnis (1882, but the version I'm linking you to is a reprint from 1966), scanned by Google Books and made available again through archive.org. I would recommend, however, that you get the version that was re-edited by Ebbinghaus (in I think 1970) to include (at the time) recently discovered findings (e.g. the Speyer leaf from the Codex Argenteus). Amazon.de has a second-hand copy for €5; abebooks lists several copies for a similar price.
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> Gotische Grammatik mit Lesestücken: http://archive.org/details/gotischegrammat03braugoog
> abebooks link for the Braune & Ebbinghaus edition:Â http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?kn=braune+ebbinghaus+gotische&sts=t&x=-885&y=-95
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> Sigi
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> ________________________________
>  From: David <dec.phd at ...>
> To: gothic-l at yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2013, 1:55
> Subject: [gothic-l] Re: Introduction Post
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> Hi Justine,
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> 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. 
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> As far as digital Wright, do you know of this link:
> http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/goth_wright_about.html#images
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> Looks like the following is PDF of Wright:
> http://books.google.com/books?id=PjlcAAAAMAAJ&oe=UTF-8
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> And I recently discovered this link to a number of other online Gothic resources:
> http://www.lexilogos.com/english/index.htm
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "Reading and enjoying the activity"--is a most worthy contribution!  We are certainly not into this stuff for the money.  (-;
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> Cheers,
> David C.
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> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "underwoodjustine" <underwoodjustine@> wrote:
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> > Hails all,
> > 
> > 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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