LL-L "Reconstruction" 2002.08.13 (07) [E]

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From: "Wim" <wkv at home.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Reconstruction" 2002.08.13 (01) [E]

Hi...

These might come in handy..

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/language_resources.html

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/pgmc_torp_about.html

W!M
wkv at home.nl

[Wim Verdoold]

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From: "Daniel Prohaska" <daniel at ryan-prohaska.com>
Subject: LL-L "Reconstruction" 2002.08.13 (01) [E]

From: Dan Prohaska
To: Bob Taylor
Subject: first posting, reconstruction

Moin, moin, Bob

   I`d say the reconstructed language you`re looking for is West
Germanic.
I`d recommend "Old English, a historical linguistic companion" by Roger
Lass
(Cambridge University Press, 1994). This will give you an explanation of
of
the development from Indoeuropean to Germanic, further on to west
Germanic
and Old English. The problem, though, with one single ancestor language
is
that Germanic between 300 BC and 300 AD was spoken by many different
tribes
in many different, but closely related dialects that once formed a
continuum
over a vast area. Various migrations disrupted this dialect continuum
leading to a seperation of certain dialects, while others merged to form
new
ones. So early Germanic dialects were in a constant flux as they still
are
today. A reconstructed ancestor language is thus a very sterile,
theoretical
construct that helps analyse the linguistic structure of the older
Germanic
dialects, but probably quite removed from contemporary everyday inter-
communication.

Dan

From: "Bob Taylor" <robert.taylor1 at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: first posting

Good morning!

I am posting for the first time.
My question is, have attempts been made to 'reconstruct' in detail
the language that is the ancestor of all the above? If you can refer
me to a book which attempts this (either looking back 2000 years
or so; or second-best would be a reconstruction of the earlier
language that precedes all three branches of Germanic) I would
be grateful. If I'm lucky there could even be a web reference?

Thankyou

Robert

City of Preston, England

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