Re: Vulgar Latin

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Roger Mills wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Martindale <kendrice@...>
> Date: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 1:36 AM
> Subject: Vulgar Latin
>
> >Can anyone suggest a good book on vulgar latin?  And perhaps just as
> >important, any I might want to avoid (I happened to pick up a book on
> >Tolkien's languages a couple of years ago, only to discover a week later
> >that it appears to be widely viewed as almost completely inaccurate by the
> >community of Tolkien Language scholars..)>
>
> IIRC, R.R.Palmer's _The Latin Language_  publ. in the 50s (if not earlier)
> goes into the history of spoken Latin to some extent.    The Cambridge
> series may have something more up to date.
>
I know I've got some German grammar of Vulgar Latin - but I can't find
it. What I did find was Sermo vulgaris Latinus, a collection of Vulgar
Latin texts collected by Gerhard Rohlfs. And I've got the Peregrinatio
Etheriae on my shelves - that's a good read, if you can find a copy,
and it'll give you a good feel for the language.

Have you already done a search with Google? You might
like to take a look at Vulgar Latin, by József Herman
(http://www.psu.edu/psupress/titles/SS_00_books/herman_vulgar.html).
It's only $17,95 at Amazon.

There's is a the bibliography at:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bgh2n/vulglat.html.

A certain Richard Firsten had the same problem - he got recommended
"An Introduction to Vulgar Lating" by C.H.  Grandgent, and asked on the
Linguist List whether it was any good. You might ask him whether he got
any decent answers: firsten1@icanect.net.


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