The Journal of English and Germanic Philology | Vol. 104 No. 2 | BOOK REVIEW: The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings.

Book Review

Volume 104 • Number 2

April 2005

The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings. By Irmengard Rauch. Berkeley Models of Grammars, Volume 5. New York: Peter Lang, 2003. Pp. xxii, 192. EUR 36.80.

This new Gothic grammar is intended to be "relatively exhaustive or complete" (editorial blurb in end papers) and is "designed for students and scholars of the oldest known language" (back cover). It consists of eight chapters: 1. External issues related to Gothic; 2. Consonant system; 3. Vowel system; 4. Segmental phonology; 5. Phonological rules of consonants; 6. Phonological rules of vowels; 7. Nominal inflection; and 8. Verbal inflection and "syntactic considerations." These chapters are followed by some 50 pages of texts and a glossary, bibliography, and short index. The texts are not assigned page numbers in the table of contents.

Frederick W. Schwink
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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