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November 03, 2015Conlangery #114: Thai (natlang)
This month Britton joined us and we talked about the wonders of reduplication and nicknames in Thai.
Top of Show Greeting: Dzuish (English-based conlang)
Wikipedia on Thai
Thai-language.com
Noss, R. B. (1964). Thai reference grammar. Foreign Service Institute.
Haiman, J. (2013). Decorative morphology in Khmer. In The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in … (pp. 61–82).
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1h 23min
October 05, 2015Conlangery #113: Applicatives
Top of Show Greeting: Zametulian
Announcements
Radio West interview and Video West feature of Trent Pehrson
The Art of Language Invention (George’s review, William’s review)
Links and Resources
Lamoureaux, S. V. D. (2004). Applicative Constructions in Maasai. Linguistics, (August).
Austin, P. K. (2005). Causative and applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal Languages. The Dative and Related Phenomena, 1–38.
Haspelmath, M., & Müller-Bardey, T. (2001). Valence change. In Morphology: A handbook on inflection and word formation 2 (pp. 1130–1145). http://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/22/11/116005
Kiyosawa, K., & Gerdts, D. B. (2010). Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives. Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological Perspectives and Case Studies, 147–183.
Baker, M., & Kramer, R. (2013). The Morphosyntax of Applicative Markers in Amharic. Afranaph Project Development Workshop 2.
Gerdts, D. B. (2004). Halkomelem directional applicatives. 39th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, 14, 189–200.
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57min
September 07, 2015 Conlangery #112: The Conlanging film with Britton Watkins
In this very special episode, we interview Britton Watkins about his upcoming documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues while his husband films us for said documentary. Keep your eye out for their crowdfunding to start, and look forward to seeing our faces when the film is released next year.
You can see information on the documentary here.
Top of Show Greeting: Rennic
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1h 7min
August 24, 2015 Conlangery SHORTS #19: Kinship in Henan Mandarin
George discusses his own observations about the use of kinship terms in his wife’s village in Henan province, China.
NOTE: We’re going to change how our audio is hosted soon. This might mean some oddness in the feeds in the coming weeks.
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8min
August 03, 2015Conlangery #111: Interview with JS Bangs
Today we have a long talk with author and conlanger JS Bangs about conlanging, worldbuilding, and writing.
Top of the Show Greeting: Praseo
Links and Resources:
JS Bangs’s conlang site
JSBangs.com
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1h 15min
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
Support Conlangery on Patreon!
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

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