Re: Judean Romancelang Plans

At 02:27 on 23.1.1999, Eric Christopherson wrote:

> Steg Belsky wrote:
> >
> > Great....i guess i really should have waited a while before starting this
> > insane project :)  Bookstore, here i come...
>
> Allen and Greenbough's Latin Grammar is available online now, at
> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ag+gram.+toc
> It's a bit hard to follow in web form though.
Allow me to recommend "Teach Yourself Latin" by Gavin Betts ISBN 0-340-38481-6
and while you're at it you should also get
"TY Ancient Greek" by Betts and Alan Henry ISBN 0-340-42298-X
WARNING! The old "TY Greek" sucks rocks (no accents!) while these two are
paragons of lucid TY language books.  You will also need a dictionary;
"Collins Gem Latin Dictionary" is designed with the student in mind:
palm-sized, extensive English-Latin part, contains a short grammar, tables
for measures, money, dates and kinship terms, (modern) geographical and
personal names -- would Steg become Stephanus or Stegus, I wonder ;).  A
real gem, in short.

If I were you I would go to the nearest academic library and get hold of:
"The Romance languages" ed. Martin Harris and Nigel Vincent ISBN 0-70099-3771-7
It's published by Croom Helm, so most ordinary mortals wouldn't be able to
buy their own copies, but it both considers Latin from the perspective of
Romance, and surveys each of the daughter languages.  The article on
Rumanian is of course of special interest to anyone wanting to make a
Romance conlang located in the east.

B-P>


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