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.
>
> 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.
Just found it. The original publication was in the journal
_Language_ vol. 26 (1950) pp 6-27. It was reprinted in Joos'
reader _Readings in Linguistics_. I remember something of Hall's
that actually contained a text in reconstructed Proto-Romance;
it was in a paper about realism in reconstructions, IIRC. The
paper referenced above doesn't have it.

Dirk

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