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Reddit mentions of A History of the French Language
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I would recommend that you study some Romance linguistics. It will be more work at first, but the pay off in the end will be huge.
Start here [with the basic sound changes] (http://press.georgetown.edu/book/languages/latin-romance-sound-charts)
And then pick a historical grammar for whatever Language you're interested in. This, for example, is not a bad book for French
What you'll realize first of all is that Romance languages don't come from classical Latin, but rather Vulgar Latin, Latin as spoken by most people.
There's all kinds of good work for Vulgar Latin, too, but even this wiki page is decent
Romance linguistics is a very well-studied field, with lots of secondary literature. And once you start seeing patterns, nothing will surprise you in Romance languages! Good luck.
Here are the ones I have and that I recommend:
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SPANISH
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The Story of Spanish: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Spanish-Jean-Benoit-Nadeau/dp/1250049040
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The History of Spanish: A Student's Introduction: https://www.amazon.com/History-Spanish-Students-Introduction/dp/1316507947 (available now from: https://www.bookdepository.com/History-Spanish-Diana-L-Ranson/9781316507940)
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A History of the Spanish Language through Texts: https://www.amazon.com/History-Spanish-Language-through-Texts/dp/0415707129
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A Brief History of the Spanish Language: (but it's really not brief) https://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Spanish-Language-Second/dp/022613394X
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La maravillosa historia del espa?ol https://www.amazon.com/maravillosa-historia-del-espa/dp/8467044276
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A History of the Spanish Language https://www.amazon.com/History-Spanish-Language-Ralph-Penny/dp/0521011841
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The Evolution of Spanish https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Spanish-Linguistic-Thomas-Lathrop/dp/1589770145
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Los 1001 años de la lengua española https://www.amazon.com/lengua-española-ESTUDIOS-LITERARIOS-Spanish/dp/968166678X
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FRENCH
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The Story of French: https://www.amazon.com/Story-French-Jean-Benoit-Nadeau/dp/0312341849
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A History of the French Language https://www.amazon.com/History-French-Language-Peter-Rickard/dp/041510887X
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French Inside Out: The Worldwide Development of the French Language in the Past, the Present and the Future https://www.amazon.com/French-Inside-Out-Worldwide-Development/dp/0415076706
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The French Language: present and past https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0729302083
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