Quick question on adjectives

[edmundfairfax@yahoo.ca [gothic-l]]

Dear Dirk, 
 The >Gotische Grammatik< by Braune/Heidermanns that you ordered has an excellent bibliography, which will help in ferreting out sundry studies and other resources helpful in studying Gothic, assuming, of course, that you have access to a well-stocked academic library. A few resources that I would recommend:
 
 1) Gerhard Koebler's >Gotisches Woerterbuch< (1989, Brill) is a very handy dictionary, with German and English glosses, as well as a concordance (the latter is particularly useful if you wish to find examples of a given word to see how it was used). There are, however, some errors in it, but still very useful. I believe that it is also available as an online resource.
 
 2) Winfred Lehmann's >A Gothic Etymological Dictionary< (1986, Brill), if your interest extends to etymology.
 
 3) Apart from Lambdin's introduction, which you mentioned earlier, there is also William Bennett's >An Introduction to the Gothic Language< (1980), which is graded and proceeds gently, although it does not cover all aspects and is primarily meant for students of comparative Germanic linguistics.
 
 4) Streitberg's >die Gotische Bibel< (2000 C. Winter), now in its seventh edition, brings together all of the extant Gothic texts (apart from the palimpset text discovered only very recently), with facing Greek original texts where existent. (The Braune grammar mentioned above also includes biblical excerpts as readings for student practice.)
 
 Unfortunately for the student of Gothic, there is no real comprehensive reference grammar, one that digests all the scholarly research done over the last century and more and addresses all aspects of the Gothic language in detail. Most of the available "grammars" and "introductions" focus narrowly on phonology and morphology, which is perhaps enough if your intension is simply to read extant Gothic texts, above all with the facing original Greek texts. If you wish to approach learning Gothic as one might a modern language and produce Gothic, you will find yourself sorely hampered. There is no real English-Gothic dictionary, for example, at least one that goes beyond a sketchy word-list. Gothic prepositions in particular have been understudied, and little discussion thereof is to be found outside a handful of articles. And word-order remains a controversial and largely neglected area of study.
 
 Edmund
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