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April 05, 2017Conlangery SHORTS 24: Personal Conlanging Progress
George talks a bit about his personal progress with Middle Pahran.
Draft Grammar of Middle Pahran
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24min
March 06, 2017Conlangery #128: Lingua Philosophica
David Salo comes on to talk about his historical research into George Dalgarno’s Lingua Philosophica, a 17th century philosophical language. We discuss the features of Dalgarno’s work, a little of how it compares to other work of the time and also its influence on the history of conlanging.
Top of Show Greeting: Lingua Philosophica (translated and read by David Salo)
Links and Resources
Linguifex article
The Works of George Dalgarno (19th century reprint of Dalgarno’s work)
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1h 1min
February 10, 2017 Conlangery #127: Language Policy
William is out for this month so we have Jake Malloy here to talk a bit about language policy, both official and unofficial, as well as a bit about language attitudes.
Top of Show Greeting: Shidhunarien
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1h 32min
January 31, 2017Conlangery SHORTS #23: Lexember 2016 reflection
I reflect a bit on Lexember 2016.
Links and Resources:
My post on -piq
Dragonlinguistics on Tumblr
Also please check out Phonetic Calligraphy on Tumblr and Facebook!
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14min
January 11, 2017 Conlangery SHORTS #22: Axanar Update
George gives a quick update on the Paramount v Axanar case and the LCS’s part in it. This was previously discussed in episode 119. For more information, please see the Language Creation Society’s Axanar information page.
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10min
December 05, 2016Conlangery #126: Hoocąk (natlang)
Today we bring on Cecil Garvin to talk about Hoocąk a Siouan language still spoken in Wisconsin and on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska.
Top of Show Greeting: Ulazradũn
Links and Resources
Hocąk Waziija Haci Language Division (some recordings there)
Hoocąk hįįt’ekjawi (still waiting to hear if we can share this)
Hocąk Teaching Materials (Volume 1, 2 — cheaper on Google Play: 1, 2)
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52min
November 07, 2016Conlangery #125: Grammatical Number
This month we talk about grammatical number. What number distinctions can you make for a language (beyond singular and plural)? What do you mark for number? And how does number interact with agreement and other grammatical systems? We’ll help you with all of that.
Top of Show Greeting: Classical Latin (translated and read by Nicholas Duharte)
Links and Resources
Baerman, Matthew and Dunstan Brown (2013) Syncretism in Verbal Person/Number Marking.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Corbett, Greville (2000) Number. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Daniel, Michael (2013) Plurality in Independent Personal Pronouns.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
Daniel, Michael and Edith Moravcsik (2013) The Associative Plural.
In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
Dixon, Robert (2012) Basic Linguistic Theory Volume 3: Further Grammatical Topics. Oxford University Press
Yazzie, Helen Yellowman et al. (2000) Da: The Navajo distributive plural preverb. Diné Bizaad Naalkaah: Navajo Language Investigations, Working papers on endangered and less familiar languages, 3, 141-160
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51min
October 03, 2016Conlangery #124: Old Irish (natlang)
We welcome Matt Boutilier on to talk about Old Irish, from the destruction of verb roots due to initial stress, to how you can incorporate initial mutations into a language.
Special mention: George recommends the show Cleverman. Nothing to do with this episode, it’s just good.
Top of show greeting: Dubarne /du’barnə/
Links and Resources
Ogham writing system
Old Irish on Wikipedia
O’Connell, F. W. (1912) A Grammar of Old Irish. Belfast: Mayne, Boyd & son, ltd
Lehmann, R. M., & Lehmann, W. P. (1975). Old Irish: An Introduction. New Yord: Modern Language
Stifter, D. (2006). Sengoidelc: Old Irish for beginners. Syracuse University Press. [William’s recommendation]
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50min
September 05, 2016Conlangery #123: Stress Systems
Today we talk all about word-level stress systems, a part of your conlang that can be done in a few minutes or have you stressing for many days, weeks, or maybe months. It all comes down to what kind of stress system you go with.
Top of Show Greeting: Modern Standard Arabic (translated and read by Aysar Aburrub)
Links and Resources
Dirk Elzinga’s post about feet
Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst (2013) Weight-Sensitive Stress. In Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst (2013) Rhythm Types. In Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Revithiadou, Anthoula (1999) A Typology of Stress Systems. In Headmost Accent Wins: Head Dominance and Ideal Prosodic Form in Lexical Accent Systems, 11–39.
Schiering, René, and Harry van der Hulst (2011) Word accent systems in the languages of Asia. In van der Hulst, H., Goedemans, R., & van Zanten, E. (Eds.) A survey of word accentual patterns in the languages of the world. Walter de Gruyter.
van der Hulst, Harry (2011) Word accent systems in the languages of Europe. In van der Hulst, H., Goedemans, R., & van Zanten, E. (Eds.) A survey of word accentual patterns in the languages of the world. Walter de Gruyter.
George’s Theory-Heavy Links
Halle, Morris and William Idsardi (1994). General properties of stress and metrical structure. Language computations, ed. by Eric Sven Ristad, 37-69.
Halle, Morris (1998) The Stress of English Words 1968–1998.” Linguistic Inquiry 29 (4)
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49min
August 15, 2016Conlangery SPECIAL #2: Too Like the Lightning
William invites Ada Palmer on to talk about her new book Too Like the Lightning, which, while not so conlangy, uses language in interesting ways for world-building, including neologisms, unusual punctuation, and gratuitous Latin revivals.
Links and Resources:
Ada’s book on Amazon
Or Barnes and Noble
Ada’s Blog Ex Urbe
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47min

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