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Hi! As I've announced several weeks ago, my latest conlang project is a-posteriori for a change. I did not have much opportunity since then to work at it (due to relay organisation and moving), but I'm very keen on working on it nevertheless. I'd like to base it on Latin from ~0-100 CE. First of all, and generally speaking, what literature should I obtain (and read) to get an impression of (Vulgar) Latin of that time?
For the vocabulary: Author Meyer-Lï¿œbke, Wilhelm Title Romanisches etymologisches Wï¿œrterbuch. Edition 3. vollst. neubearbeitete Aufl. Publication Heidelberg : Winter, 1935 Material Information 1204 s.Series Sammlung romanischer Elementar- und Handbï¿œcher. Reihe 3, Wï¿œrterbï¿œcher, 3
I suggest looking for this one at <http://www.bookfinder.com>. It can be darn expensive even in a used edition, so a good university library should be consulted! A search turns up: author: Grandgent, Charles Hall title: An introduction to Vulgar Latin / by C. H. Grandgent varying form of title: Vulgar Latin. publisher/place of publication: Boston : Heath, 1908 extent: 219 s. series: Heath's modern language series But I cant wouch for it at all since I haven't seen it! You may find these informative: You searched GUNDA - Author: hall, r a Author Hall, Robert Anderson, Title Comparative Romance grammar. Proto-Romance morphology Part Title Vol. 3, Proto-Romance morphology Publication Amsterdam : Amer. Elsevier, 1983 Material Information 304 s. Series Current issues in linguistic theory, 30 ISBN 9027235228 Author Reichenkron, Gï¿œnterTitle Historische Latein-altromanische Grammatik. Einleitung. Das sogenannte Vulgï¿œrlatein und das Wesen der Romanisierung Part Title 1, Einleitung. Das sogenannte Vulgï¿œrlatein und das Wesen der Romanisierung
Publication Wiesbaden, 1965 Material Information 408 s Try a search for "Vulgï¿œrlatein" at <http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html>
It will be a very conservative conlang wrt. grammar. Currently, I'm looking into Sardinian grammar often because it split of early from Common Romance. Secondly, and more specifically, what would be the status of final -m at that time, particularly at the northern border of the Roman Empire? Would it be feasible for a conlang to assume certain phonological effects (e.g. lengthening as a side effect of nasalisation) of final -m? Or has -m disappeared completely already without any trace? Further, what would be the status of the adverb? When did the 'mente' forms emerge and be used exclusively colloquially to replace the '-iter' morpheme? Bye, Henrik
/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
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