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Re: [romconlang] Reconstructed Latin



On 06 Nov 2011, at 08:55 , Pituxalina wrote:
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> --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@...> wrote:
>> On 20 Oct 2011, at 09:38 , Pituxalina wrote:
>>> Anyone have a text of this reconstructed Latin?  Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Hall's major works on the reconstruction of Proto-Romance were published in several sequential volumes; the phonology volume in 1976, the morphology volume in 1984.  Those are actually volumes 2 and 3 of a larger comparative Romance grammar that included an initial volume on the external history of the Romance languages in 1974. I do not know if the books have remained in print, but I have seen used copies floating around for sale (with widely varying prices).
>> There was also a fairly well-known 1950 article by Hall, "The reconstruction of proto-romance" (Language, 26.1) that sort of prefigured all the rest of his work in this area.
> 
> I have looked in the Internet for a sentence even of reconstructed Protoromance and have found nothing.

Perhaps I misunderstood what you are looking for? I am not sure whether anyone is writing texts in a reconstructed Proto-Romance of the sort proposed by Hall -- although that would surely be the sort of thing that was appropriate for this list.  Hall's own work is, of course, of the academic historical linguistics sort; I don't he was (at least professionally) interested in writing texts in reconstructed Proto-Romance, but rather looking at what the reconstruction process could and could not do for our understanding of the development of the Romance languages.

Anyway, using Hall's work and a decent working knowledge of Romance languages (or Western Romance, at any rate), I imagine would could very quickly come up with some sentences in a reconstructed Common (Western) Romance.

Cheers,
Carl

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