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Grammar of the Gothic Language

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• Corrected glossary in HTML
• Corrected glossary in XML
• TIFF, PNG, and HTML files for individual pages are below.

If you'd like to hand-correct the text, note that only certain parts of the text need to be handled:

i-x	Roman numeral pages	Needs to be corrected.
1-199	Grammar section.	Needs to be corrected.
200-291	Readings.	No need to correct; available from Project Ulfila.
292-301	Notes on readings.	Needs to be corrected.
302-358	Glossary.	Already corrected.
359-366	Discussion and glossary of proper names.	Needs to be corrected.
367-384	Supplement to the second edition (1954).	Not available here because it is still under copyright.

About the glossary

The glossary is in a mature state of correction and markup. Please report any remaining errors which you find.

In a very few cases, minor corrections were made to what were clearly punctuation errors which existed in the original. Further, the following errors existed in the original but have been corrected in the online text version:

• The verb 'uf-brinnan' should be 'sv. III', but Wright has it as 'wv. I'.
• 'munþs' is incorrectly translated as 'month'; the correct translation is 'mouth'.
• '*widan' should be 'sv. V', but Wright has it as 'sv. I'.
• 'fráujinôn' is wv. II; Wright omitted the part of speech tag.
• 'giutan' should be 'sv. II', but Wright has it as 'sv. V'.

The HTML version is a presentation version derived from the XML version. The XML version is the base document.

Correction history
16 June 1999: Changed the character coding from an idiosyncratic encoding to the closest manageable approximation of ISO-8859-1. Corrected a few typos.
27 June 1999: Corrected 'month' to 'mouth'.
10 October 1999: Corrected þaúfsus to þaúrsus. Thanks to Justin Mansfield for pointing out this error.
12 October 1999: Corrected þan to þáu within the entry for þáu. Also corrected waihts to waíhts. Thanks to Justin Mansfield for pointing out these errors.
15 December 1999: Corrected af-hrapnan to af-ƕapnan. Thanks to Giuseppe Pagliarulo for pointing out this error.
27 December 1999: Corrected aiƕa-tundi to aíƕa-tundi, air to aír, airþeins to aírþeins, airzjan to aírzjan, aiz to áiz. Thanks to Giuseppe Pagliarulo for pointing out these errors.
5 Oct 2000: Major overhaul. Sean Crist wrote a Perl program to parse the raw text and mark it up with XML-style tags, and then made a great many hand corrections to the automated parsing. In the process, at least ten more scanos were corrected.
5 Dec 2001: Corrected þis dagis afar-sabbata to þis dagis afar-sabbatê, and fráuja, wn. to fráuja, wm.. Thanks to Cory Strohmier for pointing out these errors.
15 Aug 2002: Corrected punctuation in ana and háitan. Thanks to Cory Strohmier for pointing out these errors.
24 Aug 2002: Added wv. II to fráujinôn. Corrected *widan from sv. I to sv. V. Corrected lingan to liugan. Thanks to Cory Strohmier for pointing out these errors.
30 October 2004: Corrected giutan from sv. V to sv. II. Thanks to Cory Strohmier for pointing this out.

Partial list of automated checks which have been performed:

• All English words in the definition fields were spell-checked.
• List of references to Wright's paragraphs were checked to make sure they are in numeric order (a sequence such as 222, 127 must be an error.)
• Anomalies in part-of-speech fields were shaken out by making a histogram of all words occurring in those fields; some words which occurred only once were in fact errors.
• A histogram of individual characters was made to make sure that all non-ASCII characters have been recoded as XML entities.

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