Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon

June 25, 2012 by 21 Comments

David Peterson joins us for a wonderful Supersize episode where we talk all about growing your lexicon, from generating roots to creating realistic polysemy and semantic fields.  Also, we finally feature an obscure little language we’ve wanted to talk about for a while :P

Top of Show Greeting: Oltengo

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Featured Conlang: Dothraki (fan site, David’s blog)

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Conlangery #55: Practicum — Getting Rid of Tense

June 18, 2012 by 7 Comments

We give you a podcast today about how you can do without tense, and what other things in the language can be used to fill in the gaps.  Also, we have special guest Jeffrey Jones on to talk about his conlang.

Top of Show: Sheewan

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Featured Conlang: K’tlê

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Conlangery #54: Reduplication

June 11, 2012 by 12 Comments

Today is a big show where we tackle the topic of reduplication, something we think more conlangers should employ.  Then we talk about a wonderfully crazy click langauge called Sandawe — and it’s natural!

Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr

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Featured NATLANG:  Sandawe (Wikipedia)

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Conlangery #53: Topicalization

June 4, 2012 by 11 Comments

After a short update on rain in Wisconsin and ankle injuries, we try to make sense of the topic of topicalization and topic prominent languages.  Then we talk about Talmit, a language created by active Conlangery listener and commenter Roman Rausch

Top of Show Greeting: Grewa

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Featured Conlang: Talmit (LCC talk, pdf grammar, more stuff)

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