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gothica

linguistic data, text, and code relating to the Gothic language

Wright’s 1910 Grammar of the Gothic Language

Example

Consider the following scan from Wright’s book:

book scan

I’m taking the raw text:

raw text

and marking it up something like this:

xml text

Note that this is just the work-in-progress hand markup and is subject to change.

But once this is done, not only can I produce a nice HTML version:

rendered html

(eventually linkable) but I can start to extract machine-actionable language data such as sound and word correspondences, paradigms, and glosses as well as produce character, morph, and word indices.

Status of Grammar Chapters

chapter links status
I xml • html level 2 done
II xml • html level 2 done
III xml • html level 2 done
IV xml • html level 2 done
V xml • html level 2 done
VI xml • html level 2 done
VII xml • html level 2 done
VIII xml • html level 2 done
IX xml • html level 2 done
X xml • html level 2 done
XI xml • html level 2 done
XII xml • html level 2 done
XIII xml • html level 2 done
XIV xml • html level 2 done
XV xml • html level 2 done
XVI xml • html level 2 done

Status of Other Parts

part links status
introduction xml • html done
ulfilas xml • html initial markup done
matthew xml • html initial markup done
mark xml • html initial markup done
luke xml • html initial markup done
john xml • html initial markup done
timothy xml • html initial markup done
glossary   in progress
proper names xml • html initial markup done
glossary of proper names xml • html initial markup done