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On 08 Dec 2005, at 15:06, pituxalina wrote:
What would Italo-romance have looked like around the year 500?
Sloppy Latin :)(I assume you mean 500 AD, not BC, otherwise it would be "Old Fashioned Latin" :)
Actually, I ran across an interesting book by one Robert A. Hall, _Proto-Romance Morphology_, which doesn't focus on Italian things, but certainly touches on them. I think for conlangers purposes, considering Western Romance as a dialect continuum around 500 AD is ... practical :)
There are a companion volumes to this _Morphology_ book: _External History of the Romance Langauges_ and _Proto-Romance Phonology_ which I haven't tracked down yet, but which are probably good fun.
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/