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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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Today we discuss how languages talk about time. Particularly, how do we map time onto space metaphorically.
Top of Show Greeting: Duojjin
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We’re back! This episode we answer your emails on the show. Check the full emails below the fold.
Top of Show Greeting: Fyai Thǔvn
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Today we discuss Afrihili in some detail, a discussion made possible by William’s work tracking down the book and publishing some highlights about the language.
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George takes a moment to talk about a kind of language that is somewhat to related to the pidgins and creoles episode.
CORRECTION: In the podcast I say that CIA is spoken on Copper Island. It originated there, but currently the surviving speaker population is on Bearing Island.
Special note: conlang is now listed in the Oxford English Dictionary
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David Peterson joins us to talk about pidgins and creoles and what conlangers (and linguists) can learn from them.
Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr (revised)
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