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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@c...> wrote: > > > 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" :) To be fair, numerous features of 'fancier' Latin (such as participle use outside the nominative) were in fact borrowings from Greek rhetoric. Caesar's propaganda piece on the Gallic Wars (De Bello Gallico) is a good example of Latin in a deliberately plain style as well as of the perfect propaganda piece. > > 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/ >