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Hi!
Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> >...
> > That's an interesting excerpt. What's the book title? I'm sure it
> > is hard to obtain, right? So far, any book I needed for this project
> > turned out to be hard to obtain. Fortunately, there is a lot of
> > online stuff.
> >
>
> It is "An introduction to Vulgar Latin" by Grandgent. ...
Ah, thanks! I will try to find that one.
>...
> > BTW, I got my Meyer Lübke (1st print run). However, it is
> > water-damaged a bit (ironically, it's from Amsterdam...:-))), but
> > it's perfectly readable and I am going to have a bookbinder make a
> > new cover for it. The publisher told me they are going to reissue it
> > again next year, and I will probably get a new one then.
>
> Do you know if they are ´going to republish the backward index too?
Hmm, I don't know. Maybe I should ask again. You mean the second
part of the 1st run book? Or is there another, separate index?
>...
> > Will it be a Northern Romance lang?
>
> No, apart from vowel umlaut it is a rather run-of-the-mill
> Western Romance lang, I'm afraid.
Afraid??
>...
> Not apart from its having umlaut and final devoicing. However none
> of those is unknown in Romance *here* (especially not final
> devoicing, IIANM) -- I only took unlaut a couple of steps farther.
Hehe. :-)
> > In that case, I think it would be classified as Northern Romance
> > *there*.
>
> So I think it wouldn't, but perhaps umlaut is more widespread as an
> areal feature *there*?
Quite possibly -- the area of Romance languages is larger *there* and
maybe some umlaut spread from Northern Romance to Southern. I just
thought from the umlaut and the {sch} that it was going to be a North
Romance language. Anyway, there are other Romance langs, *there*,
too, of course. If you'd classify it Western Romance *here*, it's
probably South-Western Romance *there*, since the main distinction is
North vs. South.
I'm looking forward to seeing some texts to actually feel R3. :-)
(Hopefully you are faster than me -- Þrjótrunn texts only grow slowly,
mainly since entering vocab takes so long.)
**Henrik