GOTHIC WORD ORDER PATTERNS AS ATTESTED IN THE GOTHIC GOSPEL OF LUKE
Journal: Sustainable Multilingualism
Year: 2014

Gothic is the oldest attested Germanic language that possesses features similar to Proto-Germanic i.e., the parent language of all contemporary Germanic languages. The grammar of the Gothic language not only comprises distinctive features of native origin, but also contains peculiarities inherited from Proto-Germanic as well as traces of non-Germanic impacts. The peculiar nature of Gothic grammar reveals itself in Gothic syntax, and notably in the order of words. The article aims at defining wor