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We bring on our long time “frenemy” David Peterson to talk about Trigedasleng, the future English conlang he created for the CW show The 100.
Top of Show Greeting: Noserliq (< q > = [ŋ])
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This episode we talk all about adjectives, what you can do with them and how they fit into a language.
Special Mention: Glow (2 days left on Kickstarter)
Links and Resources
- Grune, D. (1995) Hopi Survey of an Uto-Aztecan Language.
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Halling, P. H. (2012). Semantic Types and Prototypical Adjectives and Adverbs (“Dixon Specials” on page 6)
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Cuzzolin, P., & Lehmann, C. (2004) Comparison and gradation. Booij, G., Mugdan, J., SS, Lehmann, C.(eds.) Morphologie. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbiltung, 2, 1212-1220.
- Stassen, Leon. (2013) Comparative Constructions. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - Salt, Mackenzie. (?) Morphological Sketch of Tagalog
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Hallonsten Halling, P. (2009) On the Universality and Variation of the Adjective Category.
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Teodorescu, A. (2006) Adjective ordering restrictions revisited. In Proceedings of the 25th west coast conference on formal linguistics (pp. 399-407).
- Stassen, Leon. (2013) Predicative Adjectives. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. - Gil, David. (2013) Adjectives without Nouns. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. - Adjectives, who needs ’em?
- Wikipedia on Spanish adjective placement
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George brings on Sai, Christophe, and attorney Mark Randazza to talk about the LCS’s decision to file an amicus brief in Paramount v Axanar.
Links and Resources:
- LCS press release (with links to press articles)
- Amicus brief (and exhibits)
- The Dentons legal memo
- The Visual Artists Rights Act (- Wiki — closest thing the US has to moral rights, not applicable to conlangs)
- Klingon Style
- Techno Llama (contains a discussion of the proper Klingon term for “intellectual property rights”)
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This month we present you with a bunch of online linguistics databases to help get an idea of what possibilities there are for languages.
Top of Show Greeting: Maruħani
Links and Resources:
- WALS (general typology)
- APiCS (pidgin and creole typology)
- eWAVE (English dialects and English-based creoles)
- SSWL (syntactic typology)
- PBase (common phonological rules)
- PHOIBLE (phonological inventories)
- SAPhon (phonological inventories of South American languages)
- World Phonotactics Database
- A Survey of Some Vowel Systems
- A guide to small consonant inventories
- Index Diachronica (historical sound changes)
- ValPal (valency patterns)
- CLICS (polysemy)
- STEDT (polysemy in Sino-Tibetan languages)
- DatSemShifts (polysemy and semantic shifts)
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Today, after a brief digression about Pahlavi, we get into last year’s Smiley winner Kash.
Links
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Today we take some time to suggest a few books that conlangers should check out.
Linguistics Books
- Heine, B., & Kuteva, T. (2002). World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press.
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Bybee, J., Perkins, R., & Pagliuca, W. (1994). The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. University of Chicago Press.
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Dixon, R. M. (2012). Basic Linguistic Theory (Volumes 2 and 3). Oxford University Press.
- The Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (“Red Books”) and the Oxford Linguistics collection. (Somehow we mixed these two together)
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George gives another short about what you can do with your Lexember words after lexember.
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In this short episode, George puts together some of his favorites from the last Lexember! Also, a note, he also wrote a thing for Fiat Lingua.
#Lexember #kardak #conlang #conscript #WOD #29 #languages pic.twitter.com/sAWio7VyXo
— DachiiKardak (@dachiikardak) December 30, 2015
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Victor Raymond joins us today to talk about the language Tsolyáni, created by MAR Barker and implemented in his campaign setting Tékumel in Empire of the Petal Throne.
Top of Show Greeting: Proto-Continental
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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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