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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@c...> wrote: > > Has anyone on this list checked out _An Introduction to Old Occitan_ by > William D. Paden? It looks quite interesting, and I've been intending > one of my little conlangs to have a Catalany/Occitany feel, so I thought > it might be handy. From what I can tell, it seems to have a reasonable > coverage of the changes from Latin -- but it's hard to know without > having seen it. I own it -- I think it's a really good book. It does give detailed information about VL to Occ. development, as well as a thorough grounding in Old Occ. itself. One neat thing (IMO) is that none of the texts are normalized; right from lesson 1 you get authentic Old Occ. texts (with spelling variations, etc.). It also comes with a CD which has a few texts from the book read aoud and several more sung. Thomas