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We welcome Matt Boutilier on to talk about Old Irish, from the destruction of verb roots due to initial stress, to how you can incorporate initial mutations into a language.
Special mention: George recommends the show Cleverman. Nothing to do with this episode, it’s just good.
Top of show greeting: Dubarne /du’barnə/
Links and Resources
- Ogham writing system
- Old Irish on Wikipedia
- O’Connell, F. W. (1912) A Grammar of Old Irish. Belfast: Mayne, Boyd & son, ltd
- Lehmann, R. M., & Lehmann, W. P. (1975). Old Irish: An Introduction. New Yord: Modern Language
- Stifter, D. (2006). Sengoidelc: Old Irish for beginners. Syracuse University Press. [William’s recommendation]
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Today we talk all about word-level stress systems, a part of your conlang that can be done in a few minutes or have you stressing for many days, weeks, or maybe months. It all comes down to what kind of stress system you go with.
Top of Show Greeting: Modern Standard Arabic (translated and read by Aysar Aburrub)
Links and Resources
- Dirk Elzinga’s post about feet
- Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst (2013) Weight-Sensitive Stress. In Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Rob Goedemans, Harry van der Hulst (2013) Rhythm Types. In Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Revithiadou, Anthoula (1999) A Typology of Stress Systems. In Headmost Accent Wins: Head Dominance and Ideal Prosodic Form in Lexical Accent Systems, 11–39.
- Schiering, René, and Harry van der Hulst (2011) Word accent systems in the languages of Asia. In van der Hulst, H., Goedemans, R., & van Zanten, E. (Eds.) A survey of word accentual patterns in the languages of the world. Walter de Gruyter.
- van der Hulst, Harry (2011) Word accent systems in the languages of Europe. In van der Hulst, H., Goedemans, R., & van Zanten, E. (Eds.) A survey of word accentual patterns in the languages of the world. Walter de Gruyter.
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William invites Ada Palmer on to talk about her new book Too Like the Lightning, which, while not so conlangy, uses language in interesting ways for world-building, including neologisms, unusual punctuation, and gratuitous Latin revivals.
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T
oday, we bring on Scott Hamilton and BenJamin P. Johnson to talk about Brooding, a language that both of them have worked on for the Riddlesbrood Touring Theater Company.
Special Announcement: Britton’s film Conlanging is now crowdfunding on Indiegogo!
Top of Show Greeting: Finnish (translate and recorded by Eric-Mickya Liwata)
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We bring on our long time “frenemy” David Peterson to talk about Trigedasleng, the future English conlang he created for the CW show The 100.
Top of Show Greeting: Noserliq (< q > = [ŋ])
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This episode we talk all about adjectives, what you can do with them and how they fit into a language.
Special Mention: Glow (2 days left on Kickstarter)
Links and Resources
- Grune, D. (1995) Hopi Survey of an Uto-Aztecan Language.
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Cuzzolin, P., & Lehmann, C. (2004)
Comparison and gradation. Booij, G., Mugdan, J., SS, Lehmann, C.(eds.) Morphologie. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Flexion und Wortbiltung,
2, 1212-1220.
- Stassen, Leon. (2013) Comparative Constructions. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Salt, Mackenzie. (?) Morphological Sketch of Tagalog
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- Stassen, Leon. (2013) Predicative Adjectives. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Gil, David. (2013) Adjectives without Nouns. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.)
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- Adjectives, who needs ’em?
- Wikipedia on Spanish adjective placement
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George brings on Sai, Christophe, and attorney Mark Randazza to talk about the LCS’s decision to file an amicus brief in Paramount v Axanar.
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This month we present you with a bunch of online linguistics databases to help get an idea of what possibilities there are for languages.
Top of Show Greeting: Maruħani
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Today, after a brief digression about Pahlavi, we get into last year’s Smiley winner Kash.
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Today we take some time to suggest a few books that conlangers should check out.
Linguistics Books
- Heine, B., & Kuteva, T. (2002). World lexicon of grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press.
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Bybee, J., Perkins, R., & Pagliuca, W. (1994). The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. University of Chicago Press.
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Dixon, R. M. (2012). Basic Linguistic Theory (Volumes 2 and 3). Oxford University Press.
- The Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics (“Red Books”) and the Oxford Linguistics collection. (Somehow we mixed these two together)
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