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Re: Vulgar Latin

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Sunday, October 1, 2000, 21:54
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Steven Martindale wrote:

>At 01:26 PM 6/7/00 -0400, you wrote: >>>Can anyone suggest a good book on vulgar latin? >> >>I have a few, but don't have authors or titles handy at the moment. >>I'll look when I get home. > >Much appriciated!
I didn't realise that I forgot to answer you - sorry! I really will get the titles and authors of what I have (I found one on Medieval Latin yesterday at a fleamarket).
>Yeah, the little red book. So far as I've been able to find out it's all >that's in print right now. I suppose the only way to get something better >right now is to combine what's online with actually going through by hand >and doing the research oneself.
That would probably be difficult for anyone but C. Tolkien (or perhaps his staff if he has any). I doubt very much that every tidbit JRRT ever wrote in or about his languages has gotten published! Padraic.
>Steven, (Only three months behind :>)