Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses


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Today, we have a barely controlled, but good, discussion of relative clauses.

David’s presentation on the Defiance langs is on YouTube.

Links and Resources:

  •  Wikipedia on Relative Clauses
  • WALS: Relativization on Subjects
  • WALS: Relativization on Obliques
  • Internally headed relative clauses in Japanese and Navajo
  • Relative clauses in Lojban
  • Feedback:

    Email from Logan:

    Thanks for the shout-out, guys. I just listened to your plea for more

    feedback in episode 71 and figured I ought to finally respond to that.
    So, here are some more details on my lexicography project.

    The project right now is called LexTerm, and aims to provide a bridge

    between termbases (primarily used for technical translation) and
    general dictionaries. That particular feature is aimed mainly at
    translators. What I will get credit for this semester is essentially
    being able to import and export TBX termbase files and view the
    entries either as terminological entries or as lexical entries in a
    dictionary (thus assisting in generating termbases from existing
    multilingual dictionaries and generating dictionaries from existing
    termbases), so that is what I am focused on until January, at which
    point I may or may not continue with the research internship to
    continue developing more features. However, the whole project will be
    Free and Open Source, and my academic credit depends only on the
    project getting done by some means, not on who actually writes the
    code, so I’m free to let other people work on it and start adding
    additional features even before my internship is over.

    The lexicography half is pitched as assisting field linguists, and

    that actually happens to be true, not *just* an excuse to work on
    conlanging, but I expect the features desired by either group to
    overlap extensively.

    If anybody’s interested in helping out, I would first suggest looking

    up information on TBX Term Base eXchange format
    (http://www.ttt.org/oscarStandards/tbx/) as well as LMF Lexical Markup
    Framework (http://www.lexicalmarkupframework.org/), as those are the
    existing standards that I’m basing this work on. I’ll be putting the
    project up on GitHub for easier collaboration eventually, but in the
    meantime potential contributors are free to e-mail me at
    ...more
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