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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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Today George is on his own with a short and a book recommendation. You can find links to Gender by Greville Corbett here. LCS members can borrow it from the LCS Lending Library here.
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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
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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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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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