Conlangery 141: The Eighth Language Creation Conference

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery141.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge brings on Christophe and Joey to talk about their experience at the Eighth Language Creation Conference. We also have clips from interviews Joey made at the conference. Top of Show Greeting: Bizhida

Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery140.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge and William invite Prof. William Croft to talk about his theoretical approach to word classes and constructions. Forget a language without adjectives, let’s talk about how your property concepts are predicated!

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 SHORTS 29: Reflections of a PhD graduate

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort29.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge reflects on completing his PhD, and talks to those conlangers who might be considering graduate study in linguistics. Script below the fold:

Conlangery on hiatus!

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I apologize for being quiet for so long. Many of you will notice that we have not put out a new episode for a couple months. I (George) am currently working furiously on finishing my dissertation. Between data wrangling, writing, looking for jobs, and playing with a toddler I haven’t had much time or opportunity… Read more »

Conlangery SHORTS #28: Fuzzy Phonetics

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge gives a short talk about how phonology affects phonetic transcriptions and why the narrow “phonetic” transcription of your language does not have to be overly specific (especially with vowels!). We should have a regular episode again next month.

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