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George gives another short about what you can do with your Lexember words after lexember.
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In this short episode, George puts together some of his favorites from the last Lexember! Also, a note, he also wrote a thing for Fiat Lingua.
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— DachiiKardak (@dachiikardak) December 30, 2015
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Victor Raymond joins us today to talk about the language Tsolyáni, created by MAR Barker and implemented in his campaign setting Tékumel in Empire of the Petal Throne.
Top of Show Greeting: Proto-Continental
Links and Resources:
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This month Britton joined us and we talked about the wonders of reduplication and nicknames in Thai.
Top of Show Greeting: Dzuish (English-based conlang)
- Wikipedia on Thai
- Thai-language.com
- Noss, R. B. (1964). Thai reference grammar. Foreign Service Institute.
- Haiman, J. (2013). Decorative morphology in Khmer. In The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in … (pp. 61–82).
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Top of Show Greeting: Zametulian
Announcements
- Radio West interview and Video West feature of Trent Pehrson
- The Art of Language Invention (George’s review, William’s review)
Links and Resources
- Lamoureaux, S. V. D. (2004). Applicative Constructions in Maasai. Linguistics, (August).
- Austin, P. K. (2005). Causative and applicative constructions in Australian Aboriginal Languages. The Dative and Related Phenomena, 1–38.
- Haspelmath, M., & Müller-Bardey, T. (2001). Valence change. In Morphology: A handbook on inflection and word formation 2 (pp. 1130–1145). http://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984/22/11/116005
- Kiyosawa, K., & Gerdts, D. B. (2010). Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives. Benefactives and Malefactives: Typological Perspectives and Case Studies, 147–183.
- Baker, M., & Kramer, R. (2013). The Morphosyntax of Applicative Markers in Amharic. Afranaph Project Development Workshop 2.
- Gerdts, D. B. (2004). Halkomelem directional applicatives. 39th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics, 14, 189–200.
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In this very special episode, we interview Britton Watkins about his upcoming documentary Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues while his husband films us for said documentary. Keep your eye out for their crowdfunding to start, and look forward to seeing our faces when the film is released next year.
You can see information on the documentary here.
Top of Show Greeting: Rennic
Just pushing out a quick announcement: Conlangery is currently moving to new audio hosting. It looks like the first 31 episodes are going to be unavailable for a little bit. There may also be odd hiccups with the feed. Should clear up quickly, though.
EDIT: Migration should be complete now. If anyone has feed issues, let me know.
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George discusses his own observations about the use of kinship terms in his wife’s village in Henan province, China.
NOTE: We’re going to change how our audio is hosted soon. This might mean some oddness in the feeds in the coming weeks.
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Today we have a long talk with author and conlanger JS Bangs about conlanging, worldbuilding, and writing.
Top of the Show Greeting: Praseo
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Today Christophe joins us as we talk all about copulas, or copulae, however you want to talk about them.
Special mention: Intro video for Britton’s new film Conlanging
Top of Show Greeting: Dutch (submitted anonymously)
Links and Resources:
- Curnow, T. J. (1999). Towards a Cross-linguistic Typology of Copula Constructions. Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society.
- Sulger, S. (2013). When Copula Meets Case. (handout for a PhD workshop)
- Lohndal, T. (2009). The Copula Cycle. In Cyclical Change (pp. 209–242).
- Adamou, E., & Costaouec, D. (2010). Connective constructions in the world’s languages: A functionalist approach. Linguistique, 46(1), 43–80. http://doi.org/10.3917/ling.461.0043
- Pustet, Regina (2003). Copulas (Universals in the categorization of the lexicon). Oxford University Press.
- Indo-European copula (Wikipedia article)
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