Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon

David Peterson joins us for a wonderful Supersize episode where we talk all about growing your lexicon, from generating roots to creating realistic polysemy and semantic fields.  Also, we finally feature an obscure little language we’ve wanted to talk about for a while

Top of Show Greeting: Oltengo

Links and Resources:

• Analysis of English phrasal verbs with out
• John Quijada on cognitive linguistics: LCC1
• Some lojban dictonary resources
• Okuna dictonary
• ámman îar dictionary
• Asha’ille dictionary (same person has some software to convert Shoebox to HTML)
• Wikipedia list of Dictionary Writing Systems
• SIL’s Shoebox
• Lexical typology notes

Featured Conlang: Dothraki (fan site, David’s blog)

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