Re: Proto-Germanic
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 19:05 |
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Estel Telcontar wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> How do the Germanic conlangers out there find proto-Germanic paradigms
> to develop their languages from? I'm having a hard time tracking them
> down.
Author Prokosch, Eduard
Title A comparative Germanic grammar.
Publication Philadelphia : Linguistic society of America, University of
Pennsylvania, 1939
Material Information 353 p. : ill (maps) diagrs ;
Author Haugen, Einar
Title Scandinavian language structures : a comparative historical
survey / Einar Haugen
Publication Tübingen : Niemeyer, 1982
Material Information 225 s. : tab.
Series Sprachstrukturen. Reihe A, Historische Sprachstrukturen, 5
ISBN 3484650052
> Also, does anyone know of a good list of the sound changes
> between Proto-Germanic and Old English?
The only good source I know of is in German:
Author Pinsker, Hans Ernst
Title Historische englische Grammatik : Elemente der Laut- und Formlehre
Publication München, 1959
Material Information 199 s.
> The latter is for an idea I've
> had, that it would be neat to try applying those sound changes to
> ancient Greek and seeing what comes out. People have romance conlangs
> that are Germanic-like on the surface - I wonder what hellenic conlang
> that's Germanic-like on the surface would be like. Are there any other
> Greek-derived conlangs out there? I'd think there must be, but I don't
> know of them.
I suggest you subscribe to Germaniconlang. There is some stuff
in its filesection.
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/germaniconlang/>
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