Re: Vulgar Latin
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 7, 2000, 20:13 |
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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.
Again IIRC, one Robert? Hall around the same time published a reconstruction
of Proto-Romance that was something of a landmark. Probably in a journal,
not a book. Sorry, can't provide a reference at the moment.