Zompist Bboard Again

I'm having some issues with my music-making in Cambridge. I play the cello, and enjoy doing so in the few ensembles I'm part of, but I'm also acutely aware of just how insanely cliquey the Cambridge classic music scene is, which I feel insanely acutely when I'm ever at any music-related events/gathe...

I don't think there are too many pronouns, it strikes me as a rather natural system for an Australian language imo.

It gives me a place to vent the random phonologies I come up with on the fly, and often those are basically limited to consonants and vowels.

/p tʲ ʂ k/ /p’ tʲ’ t͡ʂ’ k’/ /ⁿd/ /m lʲ ɻ ŋ/ /ɨ u/ /e ɔ/ /a/ Vowels come in long and short, and a breathy/creaky voice contrast. The close unrounded vowel is fronted when before to palatalised coronals, and both front vowels are retracted before retroflexes. Syllable structure is CV(C), where coda co...

I've gotta be honest I haven't even tried to read your whole post because it is a gigantic wall of text, you perhaps could have done with splitting it u across several posts. Here's an example from Winnebago (Siouan): Kook-ra ha-nan-zhin-je-enan. box-DEF SUPRAESSIVE-by_foot-stand-AUX-DECL 'It is sta...

I mean, if voting Brexit meant voting for people who actually knew what they were doing and weren't just using it as an excuse to turn this country into a tax haven/Little England then I wouldn't be sure which way I'd fall. But after this much of a cock-up (which we absolutely could see coming durin...

Dare I ask if staying at a hotel for a couple days would be out of the question? Perhaps with a fellow participant? I think some people have done that in the past. Probably not: I'd be moving all of my stuff out of my student room on the Saturday, and we're just not insured to have all that left in...

I recall Conlangery covered a conlang that was done for NaNoWriMo one time, I think it was Txtana.

Of course given it's November it's likely that some people (myself included) without context would take "nomophobia" to mean "fear of having inadequate facial hair".

This would be super-convenient and I would go apart from the fact that I'll have to leave college for the summer that weekend, and asking college to let me stay for a couple more days would not be worth it because it would be too much of a hassle.

You must have a different ear to mine, cause I hear it consistently as /kəˈʃɒ(d)d͡ʒi/ on the BBC (tbf I am listening to the radio for my news, though I'm not sure if that should even matter).

In Porto-Yonutian, I presently have ergative alignment among third person nominals, and accusative alignment among first and second person pronouns. I know this is attested in quite a few languages. However, in clauses that have a 1st/2nd person agent a 3rd person patient, the 3rd person patient ta...

Agree with people who complain it should be "fear of laws", don't blame lay people for not knowing that relatively little-known Greek root, suspect a word what would actually mean "fear of not having a mobile phone" would be too bloody long.

Just a quick question on the state of the literature. This year I'm taking a paper on comparative linguistics, and confusingly in Cambridge it's run by the Classics faculty rather than by the Linguistics section, so it's entirely IE-based, and only gives a shit for Greek, Latin and Sanskrit. The mai...

/m mʲ n nʲ ɲ/ /mb mbʲ nd ndʲ nd͡ʒ nd͡ʑ/ /b bʲ t d tʲ dʲ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ t͡ɕ d͡ʑ k/ /f fʲ s sʲ ʃ ɕ/ /ɾ ɾʲ j ʎ w/ /i u /a ã/ Syllable structure (C)V C: a consonant V: a vowel Allophony [j] become [ɰ̟] before a rounded vowel or semivowel. Non-affricate alveolar stops [nd t tʲ ...] become sibilants [nd͡z t͡s t͡...

Nominal Morphology

Mornche Geddick wrote: ↑Tue Oct 23, 2018 10:19 am Proto-Indo-European?

No, PIE shows no creole features. It may not be as complex as its immediate daughters in terms of declensions, it still had large amounts of morphology and likely a fair degree of freedom of word order, which are definitely not creole features.

Salishan seems to have some examples of this, browsing the Index Diachronica : e.g. Chilliwack Halkomelem appears to have undergone *ú *á > á ɛ́. However it also looks like there may have been interference from ablaut patterns... Also the acute in Salishan is a stress marker, not a high-tone one. N...

High-tone vowels can break, and then you can epenthesize a consonant between the resulting vowels. Is there precedent for interactions between vowel tone and quality? Salishan seems to have some examples of this, browsing the Index Diachronica : e.g. Chilliwack Halkomelem appears to have undergone ...

A few languages in Tibeto-Burman also did the "Verschärfung" thing, with *-w becoming -p and *j becoming *-k iirc. Also some parts of Austronesian not only had their glides undergo fortition, they also had the automatically added glides between i/u and another vowel undergo fortition, but ...