Conlangery #113: Applicatives

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery113.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreTop of Show Greeting: Zametulian Announcements Radio West interview and Video West feature of Trent Pehrson The Art of Language Invention (George’s review, William’s review) Links and Resources Lamoureaux, S. V. D. (2004). Applicative Constructions in Maasai. Linguistics, (August). Austin, P. K. (2005). Causative and applicative… Read more »

Conlangery #112: The Conlanging film with Britton Watkins

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery112.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreIn this very special episode, we interview Britton Watkins about his upcoming documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues while his husband films us for said documentary. Keep your eye out for their crowdfunding to start, and look forward to seeing our faces when the film… Read more »

Moving to new hosting — expect hiccups

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Just pushing out a quick announcement: Conlangery is currently moving to new audio hosting. It looks like the first 31 episodes are going to be unavailable for a little bit. There may also be odd hiccups with the feed. Should clear up quickly, though. EDIT: Migration should be complete now. If anyone has feed issues,… Read more »

Conlangery SHORTS #19: Kinship in Henan Mandarin

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort19.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge discusses his own observations about the use of kinship terms in his wife’s village in Henan province, China. NOTE: We’re going to change how our audio is hosted soon. This might mean some oddness in the feeds in the coming weeks.

Conlangery #111: Interview with JS Bangs

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery111.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we have a long talk with author and conlanger JS Bangs about conlanging, worldbuilding, and writing. Top of the Show Greeting: Praseo Links and Resources: JS Bangs’s conlang site JSBangs.com

Conlangery #110: Copulae

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery110.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday Christophe joins us as we talk all about copulas, or copulae, however you want to talk about them. Special mention: Intro video for Britton’s new film Conlanging Top of Show Greeting: Dutch (submitted anonymously) Links and Resources: Curnow, T. J. (1999). Towards a Cross-linguistic Typology… Read more »

Conlangery SHORTS #18: Noun Classification in Palikúr

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort18.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThis episode, William tells us about the noun classifications in Palikúr, a language with both gender and numeral classifers (once thought impossible) and a couple other classifications aside. EDIT: An earlier version of the shownotes linked to the JSTOR page of the Aikenvald and Green paper…. Read more »

Conlangery #109: Kataputi

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery109.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we review the Akana conlang Kataputi. In other news, the Sixth Language Creation Conference happened. Links below. Also, George is getting his Masters. Top of Show Greeting: Old English/Anglo-Saxon (translated and read by Scott Brewer) Links and Resources Kataputi Proto-Dumic Announced bits William’s post about… Read more »

Conlangery #108: Obviation

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery108.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreSupport Conlangery on Patreon! Announcements: David Salo talking at WiGL on April 11, in Madison, WI, USA The Sixth Language Creation Conference will be on April 25-26 in Horsham, UK Bianca joins us today for an episode on obviation, just another option for managing discourse while… Read more »

Conlangery #107: Moten

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery107.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreChristophe Grandsire-Koevoets comes on to talk about his conlang Moten. Top of Show Greeting: Nærut Nɑnɑ́rɑ Links and Resources: The Moten page of Christophe’s blog Christophe’s presentation at LCC4