Conlangery 143: Music of Aeniith

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery143.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreMargaret Ransdell-Green and Eric Barker come on to talk about the music they created for Margaret’s concultures in the world of Aeniith, which they performed at LCC8. Top of Show Greeting: Muipidan

Conlangery 142: Mike McCubbins on Anasazi (comic)

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery142.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe bring Mike McCubbins on to talk about his new Kickstarter project, Anasazi, a comic which uses simple constructed written languages to tell a story in a visual medium. You can find the Kickstarter here! Top of Show Greeting: Salbécyk / Salbekian

Conlangery 141: The Eighth Language Creation Conference

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery141.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge brings on Christophe and Joey to talk about their experience at the Eighth Language Creation Conference. We also have clips from interviews Joey made at the conference. Top of Show Greeting: Bizhida

Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery140.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge and William invite Prof. William Croft to talk about his theoretical approach to word classes and constructions. Forget a language without adjectives, let’s talk about how your property concepts are predicated!

Conlangery SHORTS 30: Revising a Grammar

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort30.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge spends some time talking about his recent revisions of his Istatikii grammar, with a focus on organizing writing to serve the needs of the language and the readers. You will find the two drafts of the Istatikii consonant processes below. Script below the fold, see… Read more »

Conlangery 139: Ainu (natlang)

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery139.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreChristophe Grandsire-Koevoets joins us to talk to us about Ainu, a minority language of northern Japan. Top of Show Greeting: Bwángxùd by alr2569 (Translation Notes) Links and Resources: Japan’s new policy on the Ainu is misleading A Topical Dictionary of Conversational Ainu Bugaeva, A. (2004). Grammar… Read more »

Conlangery #138: Jessie Sams and Conlangs in the Classroom

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery138.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreJessie Sams comes on the show to talk to us about how she uses conlanging in the classroom. We discuss how these courses can be designed, what fields of linguistics they address well, and the results she saw from the course. Jessie also requested the following… Read more »

Conlangery #137: Telicity and Lexical Aspect

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery137.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge and William come back to talk about telicity and lexical aspect. Listen to us talk about endpoints in events and puzzle over why achievement and accomplishment are supposed to mean different things.

Conlangery SHORTS 29: Reflections of a PhD graduate

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort29.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge reflects on completing his PhD, and talks to those conlangers who might be considering graduate study in linguistics. Script below the fold:

Conlangery SHORTS #28: Fuzzy Phonetics

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge gives a short talk about how phonology affects phonetic transcriptions and why the narrow “phonetic” transcription of your language does not have to be overly specific (especially with vowels!). We should have a regular episode again next month.