From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 22:23:50 EST
--- Daniel Ryan Prohaska skrzypszy:
> Would you happen to know how to get in touch with Frank George Valoczy?
> I tried the e-mail he provided on his web-site, but it bounced back
> unfortunately. I'd like to exchange notes.
Sorry for being late with an answer. I have been buried under a pile of unread
email, and only now I am trying to catch up.
I don't think Ferko is a member of this group, although he is a member of
Conculture and Slaviconlang. His address is: valoczy @ vcn.bc.ca .
> Some of his extrapolations are quite good, others just go against the
> evidence that is actually there, such as s-plurals. I don't see any
> evidence of those.
Well, the evidence available is rather limited. IIRC that was what originally
discouraged him from working on a true reconstruction, and caused the shift
towards a real conlang.
> "Dalmatesku" is of course very much like Romanian, wheraas I have the
> impression that natlang Dalmatian was between eastern Romance dialects
> (definately some connection to the Balkans), but also in touch with
> Friulian, and heavily influenced by Venetan.
> So these dialects would be my base for reconstruction. Since there
> really is so little of Vegliot left (which is deplorable anyway) this
> "reconstruction" will have a very conlangy quality to it. But I will try
> to stick to the evidenec and incorporate as much of the original Vegliot
> as is there.
Well, keep us posted!
> Aside from the above mentioned staement I've been tampering with a
> Romance conlang with the working title of "Noricum". This involves a
> group of Romance condialects spoken in various parts of what is eastern
> Austria today. I've been messing around with a couple of sound changes,
> but I haven' really arrived at something satisfactory as yet. To tell
> the truth, I'm still stuck in the 8th century with two dialects already
> and can't decide which way to turn.....perhaps a consonant shift similar
> to Upper German, with a further phonological development of central
> Bavarian? We'll see. I'll keep you posted.
Please do!
> I wass also thinking of morphophonemic alternations such as:
>
> Lat <rogat>
> Lat <rogamus>
> Lat <rogatis>
>
> Noricum <jE rOat>
> <nUs @r'gaums>
> <bus @r'gais(@s)>
Well, why not? It certainly looks interesting.
Jan
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