Conlangery SHORTS #16: Gender Assignment

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort16.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday George is on his own with a short and a book recommendation. You can find links to Gender by Greville Corbett here. LCS members can borrow it from the LCS Lending Library here.

Conlangery #105: Navajo/Diné (natlang)

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery105.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday it’s just George and William talking about the wonders of Navajo. Mostly William talking, as he knows more about it. Top of show Greeting: Yanem Links and Resources: Wikipedia The Navajo Language (best resource on the Internet) The Derivation of Meaning in the Navajo Verb… Read more »

Conlangery #104: Spatial Metaphors for Time

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery104.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we discuss how languages talk about time. Particularly, how do we map time onto space metaphorically. Top of Show Greeting: Duojjin Links and Resources: From Space to Time (Haspelmath) — warning, big download Metaphor SPACE AS TIME across languages How Languages Construct Time Time and… Read more »

Conlangery #103: Mailbag 2

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery103.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe’re back! This episode we answer your emails on the show. Check the full emails below the fold. Top of Show Greeting: Fyai Thǔvn

Conlangery #102: Afrihili

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery102.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday we discuss Afrihili in some detail, a discussion made possible by William’s work tracking down the book and publishing some highlights about the language. Links and Resources: William’s Paper Wikipedia article on Afrihili  

Conlangery SHORTS #15: Mixed Languages

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort15.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge takes a moment to talk about a kind of language that is somewhat to related to the pidgins and creoles episode. CORRECTION: In the podcast I say that CIA is spoken on Copper Island. It originated there, but currently the surviving speaker population is on… Read more »

Conlangery #101: Pidgins and Creoles

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery101.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreDavid Peterson joins us to talk about pidgins and creoles and what conlangers (and linguists) can learn from them. Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr (revised) Links and Resources: Wiki on creoles APICS (WALS for creoles) An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles Creole studies: a theoretical linguist’s… Read more »

Conlangery #100: Interview with Christine Schreyer

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery100.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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… Read more »

Conlangery SHORTS #14: 吃酒喝面 Eating Wine and Drinking Noodles

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/ConlangeryShort14.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreToday 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

Conlangery #99: Nonconcatenative Morphology

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https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery99.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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… Read more »