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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)
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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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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
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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. Read more »
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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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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.
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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.
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oday, we bring on Scott Hamilton and BenJamin P. Johnson to talk about Brooding, a language that both of them have worked on for the Riddlesbrood Touring Theater Company.
Special Announcement: Britton’s film Conlanging is now crowdfunding on Indiegogo!
Top of Show Greeting: Finnish (translate and recorded by Eric-Mickya Liwata)
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