Article: The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings.(Book Review)

The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings. By IRMENGARD RAUCH. (Berkeley Models of Grammar, 5) Bern, Berlin, and Brussels: Peter Lang. 2003. xxii+ 192pp. 39.40 [euro]. ISBN o-8204-3720-4.

At first sight, this book appears welcome, providing a useful collection of texts, with facsimiles of the principal source texts, the Codex Argenteus, the Skeireins, and the relevant pages of Busbecq's letters (fol. 136 recto and verso, which contains the sum of our knowledge of Crimean Gothic). Sadly, it reveals itself to be a badly focused and ill-written amalgam of information that errs at both extremes: sophisticated scholarship sits beside ...

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