Re: Books

Mario Bonassin ha scritto:
    "There has been a lot of talk about Ancient Greek and Latin and I was
wondering if you had any suggestions of books that would be good for
more indepth study of the langs and their changes."

    I'm afraid that I can't be of much help for *Ancient* Greek and Latin,
but I just returned from the local college library with a sack of books on
modern Italiote Greek (aka Romaïco, aka Glossa, spoken in the south of Italy
near Salento, Aspromonte, and also in Corsica).  Yes, I'm fully aware that
this is *not* a constructed language, so I should probably take this
discussion elsewhere.  There are, however, some folks on this list who have
expressed interest in this subject (you know who you are!), so I will
include a short list of books that I have consulted today.

Primary texts in Italiote Greek:
Pellegrini, Astorre, 1871.  Canti popolari dei greci di Cargese (Corsica).
Bergamo.

Grammatical descriptions of Italiote Greek:
Morosi, Giuseppe, 1870.  Studi sui dialetti greci della terra d'Otranto.
Lecce.

Morosi, Giuseppe, 1878.  "I dialetti romaici del mandamento di Bova in
Calabria," pp. 1-116 in Archivio glottologico italiano, vol. 4.  Roma,
Torino, Firenze.

Pellegrini, Astorre, 1880.  Il dialetto greco-calabro di Bova, I.  Torino e
Roma.

Dictionaries of Italiote Greek:
Rohlfs, Gerhard, 1965.  Vocabolario supplementare dei dialetti delle Tre
Calabrie I.  Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.  Neue Folge, Heft 64.

Rohlfs, Gerhard, 1967.  Vocabolario supplementare dei dialetti delle Tre
Calabrie II.  Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften.  Neue Folge, Heft 66.

There are also these books, which are currently in a depository and
inaccessible to me:

Carpinato, Caterina, et al., 1997.  Neoellenike glossa kai logotechnia sten
Italia = Lingua e letteratura neogreca in Italia.  Athena.

Crupi, Giovanni Andrea, 1981.  La glossa di Bova: cento favole esopiche in
greco calabro: schema grammaticale, lessico.  Roccela Jonica.

Tondi, Domenicano, 1935.  Glossa: la lingua greca del Salento.  Noci (this
last one is held captive at the Dumbarton Oaks Library in Washington, D.C.
and will probably never see the light of day).

    I'd welcome any more contributions to this little bibliography.
Obviously this isn't the hottest topic in the field of Mediterranean
languages, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of the Italiote Greeks
assimilated to mainstream Italian society within the next few generations
(as my mother's family did).  Because of my own family connections to the
Italiotes (and the scarcity of information on Glossa/Romaico/Italiote Greek
on the Web), I'd like to put some information up on my own website.
    I don't know when I'll be doing this, though, because I'm scheduled to
do a fourth year of Hebrew, a second year of Classical Arabic and Syriac,
and to begin Ugaritic all this year - a whopping four languages.  I'm also
helping to teach a course on the historical grammar of Hebrew.  So, the
world of constructed languages will be hearing very little from me in the
coming year (and the list will be less... dense... for my absence, I
suppose).

kalispera sas!
-Chollie (aka Tsarli)

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