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Can anyone recommend a good historical grammar of Catalan (or even Occitan)? Of the romconlangs I'm poking about with, I've got one similar to Spanish and another that I want kind of Catalanish/Occitanish. Ralph Penny's little book on Spanish does me pretty well for Castellano sound changes, but I'm lacking anything on Catalanish/Occitanish. I can probably extract useful info from a grammar, at least, whether its written in French or Spanish (or Catalan).
I'm thinking about this at the moment since I'm trying to sort out some of my feudal and religious terminology. I understand the path from <dominus> (VL <domnus>) to Spanish <don> and <dueño>, but am wondering what the right outcome might be, especially for the proclitic, titular form, in Catalan or Occitan. I guess in standard French one finds "Dom", so perhaps that's the right answer for a more "southerly" dialect as well? Though I often have trouble wrapping my head around the sound changes and other factors that affect the outcomes of these sorts of specialized terminology.
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/