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George discusses his own observations about the use of kinship terms in his wife’s village in Henan province, China.
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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!
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