Zompist Bboard Again

Like a lot of amateur conlangers, Misali seems to think that “phonology” means “a chart of consonants and vowels, plus maybe some allophony.” Sorry for the ameteur-ish newbie question, but beyond that, what else does "phonology" mean? E.g. syllable structure, phonotactics of roots, affixe...

Sounds like social science to me ...

Artifexian probably has a YT video on this.

(As one example, his regional government at one point actively prohibited schools from installing air filtering systems in their classrooms even when these devices would have been paid for by parents, alumni clubs, or local businesses, because, well, schools simply can't be affected by the pandemic...

From my experience, Germans use [ɛ] whereas Indonesians use [a] more often.

Nice to see some autosegmental phonology

I like languages of Papuanesia. I am particularly interested in Papuan languages, because they are so diverse. If something is rare, it probably occurs in Papua. I also like Austronesian languages, maybe because I speak Indonesian, but also because they have cool features like small consonant invent...

In Indonesian I mostly hear <alkitab> /alkitap/.

Well, "jetzt" meaning "now" can be used in a nominalized forms "das Jetzt" or "das Hier und Jetzt". Cognate to English "yet", IINM.

That IS surprising. At least they were morphologically related in Proto-Germanic then. So it's not a calque after all. I can't find something on Zukunft right now (except it means 'that which is to come'). Is Vergangenheit the only Latin calque then?

I always thought it was a calque on Latin praesens, with <wart> being a form of <sein> 'to be' and <gegen> a strange archaic translation of <prae>.

If you know the language name, you can use the flottolog to get a list of literature dealing with the language.

Re phrasal tone spreading: This is definitely attested. The first language that comes to my mind is Bemba. Nancy Kula has worked on it. You should be able to find some handouts if you google it. The spreading is across words though. Of the top of my head I can't think of any clitic data, but I am su...

As for full multigraph support, I think Lexurgy has it, IIUC. Or maybe only simple multigraph support, idk.

Have you read "the blue bird of ergativity"? You will find it on google and IMHO it adresses the issue quite clearly.

Great work
Is there a reason for not calling the measure words just numeral classifiers?

I don't think many linguists believe that there is a causal relationship. You can find some strange correlations if you compare the right variables.

Post-velars have complex effects. The dissertation by Sylak-Glassman (2014) gives a good typological overview at some point.

My answer will probably not help much. A lot of the words looked more Indonesian or German to me than English. 1. SETRANTE the aunt 2. TERIK to scream 3. URETU uterus 4. SEPRUS a push 5. EPLAGKE a plagur 6. KERAFTE force, power 7. ESKERUTRAIWE, excrement 8. MULSIYA mull samd 9. SETREGFE a track 10. ...

If anyone who reads this has been enjoying DISCO, I say go for it, but to me, it's quite possibly the worse Trek made to date. I'd rather watch the first season of TOS on constant repeat - complete with late 60's era commercials - for an entire year than be subject to the travesty that is DISCO. I ...