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We puzzle through the very difficult and complex subject of thematic roles and role marking, and then review the awesomely complicated Okuna.
Top of Show Greeting: Standard Telèmor
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We finish out our Holy Trinity of Verbs with Mood — a slippery, slippery subject if there ever was one. Of course, after trying to make some sense out of that, we move on to review South Eresian
Top of Show Greeting: tzoi
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The second in our TAM series, we spend a good deal of time on the basic perfective/imperfective distinction as well as talk a little about how you can go totally crazy with many, many more aspects. Then we review the incredible Siwa.
Top of show greeting: Salthan
Featured Conlang: Siwa (CBB Thread)
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(First of all, here’s a link to the Inyauk Grammar for you.)
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The first of our episodes of the holy verbal trinity of TAM. We initially planned to do Tense and Aspect as one episode, but the more we talked about tense the more complicated it became, so the aspect discussion is pushed to next week. We also have a wonderful time talking about the insanity that is Klingon.
Opening Phrase: Sandic
Featured Conlang: Klingon (KLI, The Klingon Dictionary)
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We throw out some tips for how to kick certain creative habits you might have developed as you create languages. Then we review the Akana language Tmaśareʔ.
Top of Show greeting: Myonian
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We give you some info on verb framing — that is the typology of how languages describe motion, as well as some discussion of postural verbs, aka positionals, and all the wondrous variety you can create with them. Also, we review [k]enyani.
Greeting: Gomain by Zach Hart
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We have no Will today, but we do have Adam Skoog from Sweden. After a good discussion about personal names where I continually refer to Chinese naming conventions, we talk with Adam about his wonderful language Kozea and the kooky videos he has created with it.
Classical Tailancan by Dewrad
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Featured Conlang: Kozea
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Today we talk about nonconfigurationality, that is what languages do with word order when it’s not needed to show semantic roles. William regales us with tales of Navajo animacy-based word order, Nahuatl shifting its numerals around, and Ancient Greek’s confounding tendency to separate adjectives from their noun phrases. Also, we talk about Ayeri, a wonderfully well-developed conlang by Carsten Becker
Top of Show Greeting: South Eresian
Featured Conlang: Ayeri
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