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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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We had a wonderful conversation with Christine Schreyer, the creator of the Kryptonian language featured in Man of Steel and a professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, who uses a language creation assignment in one of her classes.
Top of Show Greeting: Moten
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Today George brings on his fiancé Li Wang to talk about some interesting little lexical facts in Chinese that might be an inspiration.
Links and Resources
- Google shows nearly a million hits for 吃酒
- A Conlanger’s Thesaurus
- Semantic Associations presenation
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We have some fun telling you about nonconcatenative mophology — that is morphology that doesn’t involve stringing things together. It’s not just Arabic, folks (though we do talk about that a bit).
Top of Show Greeting: Engeldish
Links and Resources:
- “Down with Morphemes” talk and paper
- Wikipedia article
- Wikipedia “Apophony”
- Indo-European Ablaut
- “Transfix”
- Arabic broken plurals
- Disfixes
- Consonant gradation (and here)
- A presentation on NC morphology
- Takelma
- Ablaut in Hill Patwin (57-page paper)
- Sign Language morphology (paper, video, and a lesson)
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In this episode, George points out a really interesting little subreddit that might provide some inspiration to conlangers.
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We talk about a Papua New Guinea language called Menya. Follow along here.
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George recorded a special interview with David J Peterson and Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets to talk about some recent events at the Language Creation Society.
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Today we interview conlanger Britton Watkins about his journey from natlang enthusiasm through Vulcan and Na’vi fandom to creating a conlang for his and his husband’s ‘nano-budget’ movie.
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Bianca tells us a little about the verbal system of Uskra, one of her conlangs, and how she played with giving grammatical forms multiple uses.
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George and William have a discussion of those times when the subject isn’t in the case you might expect it to be in.
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