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In our last full episode of 2012, we talk all about Cherokee.
Top of Show Greeting: Emberyad
Announcements:
- Profile of John Quijada in The New Yorker
Featured NATLANG: Cherokee
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Special mention: DJP had another podcast interview (Yeah, I know, we’re late on everything)
Thanks to a wonderful email suggestion, we talk about how conlangers should read linguistics research papers, including what to look at (and what you don’t need to) and how to find papers to look at.
Top of Show Greeting: Kobardon
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This week John Ericson joins us to talk about his wacky and wonderful FairyLang.
Top of Show Greeting: Russian (translation by Boris Listunov)
Featured Conlang: FairyLang
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William is back! He talks with us all about definiteness.
Top of Show Greeting: Vreksi
Links and Resources:
- Typology of definiteness
- Irish initial mutations (note the difference in masculine and feminine definites)
- Javanese and definiteness in subjects
- Another paper on definiteness
- Hungarian definiteness marking on verbs
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George shares his favorite chengyu (成语): 班门弄斧
Top of Show Greeting: Omlűt
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This week, we invite Martin Posthumous on to talk about his new conlang Alashian.
Top of Show Greeting: South Eresian (reuse)
Featured Conlang: Alashian
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Today we talk to you all about vowel harmony, taking Turkish, Finnish, Moro, and Mongolian as case studies to help you figure out the intricacies of what choices you need to make in vowel harmony systems and how you can introduce interesting
Top of Show Greeting: Maksinaunminverbe
Links and Resources:
- Distinctive Feature Chart
- Vowel Systems
- Info on Turkish
- Wikipedia: Languages with Vowel Harmony
- Kinyarwanda (natlang; not mentioned on the pod)
Special mention (from the outtakes): A giant freaking basket
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We didn’t get a full episode out this week, but George didn’t want to have a week with nothing at all, so he “reads”* the date in Tagalog, then goes on a ramble about loanwords a bit.
Top of Show Greeting: Lingwa de Planeta
Text of that date and time expression, for the curious:
Ika-4 ng Nobiembre, 2012, alas 4:30 ng hapon.
(all words): Ika-apat ng Nobiembre, twenty-twelve, alas kuwatro y medya ng hapon.
*(It was actually produced on the fly, hence the disfluency.)
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Today we eventually get to talking about Khangaþyagon, and get a lot of interesting stuff out of it. Also, George forgets a notable conlanger who has been featured before on the show. *headdesk*
Top of Show Greeting: Shokitin
Featured Conlang: Khangaþyagon
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Today, we have a barely controlled, but good, discussion of relative clauses.
David’s presentation on the Defiance langs is on YouTube.
Links and Resources:
- Wikipedia on Relative Clauses
- WALS: Relativization on Subjects
- WALS: Relativization on Obliques
- Internally headed relative clauses in Japanese and Navajo
- Relative clauses in Lojban
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