Re: Aelya question

On 22 Jan 00, at 3:14, Aidan Grey wrote:

>     Second query:
>
>     I have another problem - I love morphology. So, I keep trying to add
> ooodles (3 o's is on purpose!) of neat stuff, like cases like Finnish,
> morphosyntactic qualities like Navaho, a gajillion (it's a technical term)
> deictics, and so on. On top of that, I'm never happy with the affixes or
> umlauts I assign. How do you folks deal with this - I can't be the only
> person here (and I know I don't have time to start ANOTHER lang - I'd like
> to finish this one!) with this problem?
On x-lauts and other phonologically-manifested morphology:

I'm currently trying to read 'Explorations in Dependancy Phonology'
(Anderson & Durand eds 1987, Publications in Language Sciences No. 26, ISBN
90-6765-298-9).  It's a mite more heavy going than most things I'm used to
reading, but it looks like it's going to be very useful for learning about
the way all that good stuff hangs together.

If I can ever get more than a few pages into it, I'll prepare a review, and
will attempt to become a source of answers.