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Today we have a long talk with author and conlanger JS Bangs about conlanging, worldbuilding, and writing.
Top of the Show Greeting: Praseo
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Today 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 of Copula Constructions. Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
- Sulger, S. (2013). When Copula Meets Case. (handout for a PhD workshop)
- Lohndal, T. (2009). The Copula Cycle. In Cyclical Change (pp. 209–242).
- Adamou, E., & Costaouec, D. (2010). Connective constructions in the world’s languages: A functionalist approach. Linguistique, 46(1), 43–80. http://doi.org/10.3917/ling.461.0043
- Pustet, Regina (2003). Copulas (Universals in the categorization of the lexicon). Oxford University Press.
- Indo-European copula (Wikipedia article)
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This 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. The new link goes to a page where you can download the paper directly.
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Today 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
Announced bits
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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 clarifying who does what to who. Also, we have a couple interesting digressions on direct/inverse verb agreement systems and George’s hindsight on the appropriateness of a certain story.
Links and Resources:
- A little introduction to obviation
- “Focus, obviation, and word order in East Cree“
- “Obviation as discourse structure in Swampy Cree acimowin“
- “Syntactic direction and obviation as empathy-based phenomena: a typological approach“
- “THE OBVIATION HIERARCHY AND MORPHO SYNTACTIC MARKEDNESS“
- “Obviation, Inversion, and Topic Rank in Ojibwa“
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Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets comes on to talk about his conlang Moten.
Top of Show Greeting: Nærut Nɑnɑ́rɑ
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Suzette Haden Elgin passed away on January 27th. She will be missed.
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William can now talk about conlanging he did for a videogame!
In this episode, George and William go over the wonderful diversity of auxiliary verb constructions! So much to think about!
Links and Resources:
- Auxiliary Verb Constructions in the languages of Africa
- Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Old Turkic and Altai-Sayan Turkic
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Today it’s just George and William talking about the wonders of Navajo. Mostly William talking, as he knows more about it.
Top of show Greeting: Yanem
Links and Resources:
- Wikipedia
- The Navajo Language (best resource on the Internet)
- The Derivation of Meaning in the Navajo Verb
- Structure of Navajo
- A bunch of learning resources
- Reversing Navajo Language Shift (book chapter)
- A Computational Analysis of Navajo Verb Stems (This is the one George called out as dealing with analogy)
- Aspects of Navajo Verb Morphology and Syntax: The Inchoative
- An Experiment in Computational Parsing of the Navajo Verb
- Bibliography on Navajo (for those who have access to academic articles and want to do a deep dive)
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