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 #136: Nymeran with Colm Doyle

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery136.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreColm Doyle comes on to talk about his Nymeran language, created for the comic series Glow, as well as some of the process and challenges of making a conlang and script for comics. Top of Show Greeting: Vaq’ǫ̀ʔ Nąśą /vàqʼõ̀ʔ nã̀ʃã́/ Glow issue 2 Kickstarter

Conlangery #135: Using Linguistic Theory for Conlanging

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery135.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreJoey Windsor and Christophe Grandsire-Koevets join George to discuss what tools we can get from more advanced linguistics theoretical frameworks. What tools do they provide the conlanger, and where do you have to be careful about applying them. Top of Show Greeting: Gidurguyt [ɡɪ-ərdɡuː-jɪt] LCC Presentations:… Read more »

Conlangery SHORTS #27: #Lexember 2017 Wrap-up

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort27.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge discusses last year’s Lexember and some of the things that came out of that. Also, help us correct our transcripts on the Conlang Sources Wiki. What we reblogged on Tumblr. The Conlangery Twitter account. (Sorry, twitter search is bad, so I can’t  conveniently direct you… Read more »

Conlangery #134: Converbs

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery134.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday, Matt Pearson joins George and William to talk about non-finite “adverbial” verb forms called converbs. Top of Show Greeting: Old Niveni Links and Resources: Imperative Converb in Archi (conference abstract) Expressing adverbial relations in clause linkage with converbs: definitional and typological considerations (workshop slides) Ylikoski,… Read more »

Conlangery #133: Language and Identity

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery133.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreJake and Kaye come on to talk about how language can interact with identity, across ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class identities. Top of Show Greeting: Faikari. /ˈvɐ͡ɪ.kʰɒ.ˌʁi/ Links and Resources: Plural you Key and Peele skits 1, 2 Stigmatization of speech associated with women “Sounding… Read more »

Conlangery SHORTS #26: Phonix

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort26.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, George discusses Phonix, a sound change applier that will help you with your historical conlanging.