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--- Daniel Ryan Prohaska skrzypszy: > Would you happen to know how to get in touch with Frank George Valoczy? > I tried the e-mail he provided on his web-site, but it bounced back > unfortunately. I'd like to exchange notes. Sorry for being late with an answer. I have been buried under a pile of unread email, and only now I am trying to catch up. I don't think Ferko is a member of this group, although he is a member of Conculture and Slaviconlang. His address is: valoczy @ vcn.bc.ca . > Some of his extrapolations are quite good, others just go against the > evidence that is actually there, such as s-plurals. I don't see any > evidence of those. Well, the evidence available is rather limited. IIRC that was what originally discouraged him from working on a true reconstruction, and caused the shift towards a real conlang. > "Dalmatesku" is of course very much like Romanian, wheraas I have the > impression that natlang Dalmatian was between eastern Romance dialects > (definately some connection to the Balkans), but also in touch with > Friulian, and heavily influenced by Venetan. > So these dialects would be my base for reconstruction. Since there > really is so little of Vegliot left (which is deplorable anyway) this > "reconstruction" will have a very conlangy quality to it. But I will try > to stick to the evidenec and incorporate as much of the original Vegliot > as is there. Well, keep us posted! > Aside from the above mentioned staement I've been tampering with a > Romance conlang with the working title of "Noricum". This involves a > group of Romance condialects spoken in various parts of what is eastern > Austria today. I've been messing around with a couple of sound changes, > but I haven' really arrived at something satisfactory as yet. To tell > the truth, I'm still stuck in the 8th century with two dialects already > and can't decide which way to turn.....perhaps a consonant shift similar > to Upper German, with a further phonological development of central > Bavarian? We'll see. I'll keep you posted. Please do! > I wass also thinking of morphophonemic alternations such as: > > Lat <rogat> > Lat <rogamus> > Lat <rogatis> > > Noricum <jE rOat> > <nUs @r'gaums> > <bus @r'gais(@s)> Well, why not? It certainly looks interesting. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html