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 »
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Conlangery #40: Dialects and Kunstsprachen
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
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
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
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
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 »
Conlangery #35: Practicum – Getting Rid of Case Marking
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery35.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWhat do you do when you want to make a language without case marking? Or with very little case marking? That is what we attempt to explore in this episode. If you would like to take up George’s “homework” challenge, make up a sketch of a… Read more »
Conlangery #34: Gender and Noun Classes
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery34.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAlternate Title: Genders, Classes, and Agreement, oh my! We talk today all about gender. Or noun class. Or both. Really, they are the same thing, at least we think so. Anyway, after a vivid and lively discussion on what can be done with the wonderful world… Read more »
SOPA Blackout
Conlangery will be “blacked out” on Wed, January 18th in opposition to SOPA (HB3261: Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (SB968: Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011, aka PROTECT IP). Behind those bureaucratic congressional names are two bills that could seriously damage the workings of the Internet. As… Read more »
Conlangery #33: Suprasegmentals
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery33.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe get right to it talking about suprasegmentals: mainly stress, phonation, tone, and nasalization. After a long and fascinating (if incomplete) discussion, we finally get around to talking to DJP’s Kamakawi. Top of Show Greeting: Kinál Links and Resources: Phonation Types Mark Liberman has doubts about… Read more »
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