Conlangery Podcast

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July 06, 2015Conlangery #110: Copulae
Today Christophe joins us as we talk all about copulas, or copulae, however you want to talk about them.
Special mention: Intro video for Britton’s new film Conlanging
Top of Show Greeting: Dutch (submitted anonymously)
Links and Resources:
Curnow, T. J. (1999). Towards a Cross-linguistic Typology of Copula Constructions. Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
Sulger, S. (2013). When Copula Meets Case. (handout for a PhD workshop)
Lohndal, T. (2009). The Copula Cycle. In Cyclical Change (pp. 209–242).
Adamou, E., & Costaouec, D. (2010). Connective constructions in the world’s languages: A functionalist approach. Linguistique, 46(1), 43–80. http://doi.org/10.3917/ling.461.0043
Pustet, Regina (2003). Copulas (Universals in the categorization of the lexicon). Oxford University Press.
Indo-European copula (Wikipedia article)
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1h 3min
June 03, 2015Conlangery SHORTS #18: Noun Classification in Palikúr
This episode, William tells us about the noun classifications in Palikúr, a language with both gender and numeral classifers (once thought impossible) and a couple other classifications aside.
EDIT: An earlier version of the shownotes linked to the JSTOR page of the Aikenvald and Green paper. The new link goes to a page where you can download the paper directly.
Links and Resources
Palikúr and the Typology of Classifiers (Aikenvald and Green 1998)
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13min
May 07, 2015Conlangery #109: Kataputi
Today we review the Akana conlang Kataputi.
In other news, the Sixth Language Creation Conference happened. Links below. Also, George is getting his Masters.
Top of Show Greeting: Old English/Anglo-Saxon (translated and read by Scott Brewer)
Links and Resources
Kataputi
Proto-Dumic
Announced bits
William’s post about legal stuff
LCC6 site
Day 1, part 1
Day 1, part 2
Day 2
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38min
April 06, 2015Conlangery #108: Obviation
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Announcements:
David Salo talking at WiGL on April 11, in Madison, WI, USA
The Sixth Language Creation Conference will be on April 25-26 in Horsham, UK
Bianca joins us today for an episode on obviation, just another option for managing discourse while clarifying who does what to who. Also, we have a couple interesting digressions on direct/inverse verb agreement systems and George’s hindsight on the appropriateness of a certain story.
Links and Resources:
A little introduction to obviation
“Focus, obviation, and word order in East Cree“
“Obviation as discourse structure in Swampy Cree acimowin“
“Syntactic direction and obviation as empathy-based phenomena: a typological approach“
“THE OBVIATION HIERARCHY AND MORPHO SYNTACTIC MARKEDNESS“
“Obviation, Inversion, and Topic Rank in Ojibwa“
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42min
March 02, 2015Conlangery #107: Moten
Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets comes on to talk about his conlang Moten.
Top of Show Greeting: Nærut Nɑnɑ́rɑ
Links and Resources:
The Moten page of Christophe’s blog
Christophe’s presentation at LCC4
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1h 1min
February 02, 2015Conlangery #106: Auxiliary Verb Constructions
Suzette Haden Elgin passed away on January 27th. She will be missed.
You can now support Conlangery on Patreon!
William can now talk about conlanging he did for a videogame!
In this episode, George and William go over the wonderful diversity of auxiliary verb constructions! So much to think about!
Links and Resources:
Auxiliary Verb Constructions in the languages of Africa
Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Old Turkic and Altai-Sayan Turkic
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48min
January 06, 2015Conlangery SHORTS #17: Lexember 2014
This episode, George highlights a few words from last year’s #Lexember event.
Words:
ihar
kopoyamtuki
snūgā
kwägilärä
naagari
hintul
chyubīne
tneban
fri
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21min
December 01, 2014 Conlangery SHORTS #16: Gender Assignment
Today George is on his own with a short and a book recommendation. You can find links to Gender by Greville Corbett here. LCS members can borrow it from the LCS Lending Library here.
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18min
November 03, 2014Conlangery #105: Navajo/Diné (natlang)
Today it’s just George and William talking about the wonders of Navajo. Mostly William talking, as he knows more about it.
Top of show Greeting: Yanem
Links and Resources:
Wikipedia
The Navajo Language (best resource on the Internet)
The Derivation of Meaning in the Navajo Verb
Structure of Navajo
A bunch of learning resources
Reversing Navajo Language Shift (book chapter)
A Computational Analysis of Navajo Verb Stems (This is the one George called out as dealing with analogy)
Aspects of Navajo Verb Morphology and Syntax: The Inchoative
Remarks on the Syntax of the Navajo Verb Part I: Preliminary Observations on the Structure of the Verb
An Experiment in Computational Parsing of the Navajo Verb
Bibliography on Navajo (for those who have access to academic articles and want to do a deep dive)
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47min
September 30, 2014Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time
Today we discuss how languages talk about time. Particularly, how do we map time onto space metaphorically.
Top of Show Greeting: Duojjin
Links and Resources:
From Space to Time (Haspelmath) — warning, big download
Metaphor SPACE AS TIME across languages
How Languages Construct Time
Time and the mind: Using space to think about time
Spatial Metaphors in Temporal Reasoning
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48min

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