Conlangery #45: Questions

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery45.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThis week we talk about the many peculiarities of how questions can be handled in your language.  Join us as we explore not only polar and content questions, but also talk about rhetorical and conjectural ones as well, with some insight on how different languages handle… Read more »

Conlangery #44: Negation

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery44.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreFirst of all, George was on something called FourCast a bit ago.  You might enjoy it.  Also, CNN is doing a special on Dothraki on April 8.  But the meat of this podcast is all about negation: how to deal with scope, negative concord, and a… Read more »

Conlangery #43: Adpositions

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery43.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday, we spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about adpositions, creating an hour-long discussion out of something William thought would be short.  We also have an extra special featured conlang today — one hand crafted specifically for this podcast! Top of Show Greeting: Opaki Aŋkuati Links… Read more »

Conlangery #42: Practicum — Getting Rid of Adjectives

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery42.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe introduce you to a new host: Mike Lentine.  Then we cover the different ways you can get rid of adjectives or at least fuzz the distinctions between them and other word classes.  Also, we try to figure out what Lojban is all about. Top of… Read more »

Conlangery #41: Discourse Particles

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery41.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreBianca’s last show as a regular host goes into a rather ambitious topic: discourse particles.  Go listen to the show, because it’s too complicated a subject for me to summarize properly here.  We also feature a natlang going by two names. Top of Show Greeting: Amjati… Read more »

Conlangery #40: Dialects and Kunstsprachen

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery40.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAfter a big announcement, we delve into the mysteries and wonders of creating dialects, reviewing natlang tendencies and talking about some techniques that can be used to mimic them, and then we talk about a quite interesting conlang as well. Top of Show Greeting: Palezi Urca… Read more »

Conlangery #39: Noun Incorporation

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery39.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge gets Bianca’s name wrong and no one notices.  We also have some digressions at the beginning and the end of the show, but somehow we end up talking a whole lot about noun incorporation, and the weird and wacky language known as Gevey. Top of… Read more »

Conlangery #38: Derivational Morphology

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery38.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we talk all about derivational morphology and what can be done with it.  We also spend some time talking about Proto-Deithas Top of Show Greeting: Sindarin (translation by Roman Rausch) Links and Resources: Gary Shannon’s notes on related words Lexical Semantics Agent nominalizations Nominalization in… Read more »

Conlangery #37: Phonological Processes

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery37.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAszev of the CBB joins us for a little talk about the many kinds of phonological processes: what they are, what you can do with them, why the order of processes in important.  We also review the awesomely well-developed Novegradian with its 500-page grammar and excellent… Read more »

Conlangery #36: Morphosyntactic Alignment

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery36.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreCORRECTION: A commenter below graciously corrected me on a point I (George) raised in the show.  When I talk about desiderative languages, please replace that word with dechticaetiative.  Look to the comments below for a relevant link.  I apologize for misidentifying the phenomenon I was talking about. We… Read more »