The periods of Cornish are, happily, not in as great of dispute as the othography or the grammar. The major periods of Cornish are: 1. Old Cornish (10th-12th centuries). All that remains in it is a very ancient vocabulary called the _Vocabularium Cornicum_, a couple of glosses, and some proper names (Price,1984:138). I have a reference to a work by Kenneth Jackson _Language and History in Early Britain_ (1953) which is said to deal with Old Cornish in some detail but I've been unable to find the book yet. Norris (1856) does reproduce his own editing and translation of the _Vocabularium Cornicum_ as his "Ancient Cornish Vocabulary" in his two volume _The Ancient Cornish Drama_ (reissued 1968). 2. Middle Cornish (13th-16th Centuries). Most of the preserved writings are in Middle Cornish such as The _Ordinalia_ and "The Story of John of Chy-an-Hur" (Price,1984:139). Price gives a reference to a book by Henry Lewis _Llawlyfr Cernyweg Canol_ (1946) by the University of Wales Press which deals exclusivley with the remains of Middle Cornish. The notes I've been posting have been coming from Norris' analysis of the Cornish in the _Ordinalia_ so I suppose it would fall into Middle Cornish. 3. Late Cornish (17th-18th centuries). Several short works were written in this period and were mostly direct Cornish translations of English pieces by people who were not native Cornish speakers and let English effect their Cornish enormously. I'm still looking for a good reference to this period in the language (if you find one, holler!). 4. 'Revived' Cornish (19th-20th centuries). This is of course the revived Cornish of Jenner, Nance, and the _Kesva an Tavas Kernewek_ (The Cornish Language Board). Price (1984:141-144) seems to have a big problem with it as well as a certain C. Thomas writing in 1963. Price doesn't even want to call it Cornish but Cornic (Price:1984,141). The references to works on the revived Cornish have been posted on this mailing list. I don't think that the new Cornish is wrong as long as its carefully done, which it probably has because I've never been able to see one of the new Cornish works although I've wanted to. I hope this answers the question about the different types of Cornish. I will be posting soon some new material from Norris but I must say that the way he's handled his discussion on the verb is very confusing (giving tenses numbers for instance) and it'll take me a time to sort it all out. Anthony Velasquez Oregon State Univeristy (E-mail) velasqua@ucs.orst.edu ========================================================================= The vorth a vyth gurys. =========================================================================