https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery26.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe talk about one of William’s pet peeves in conlang descriptions and linguistics in general: the overuse of the word “emphasis”. We start out with some very strong reccomendations against using it in phonology, and then talk about some more standard terms you might use instead… Read more »
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Conlangery #25: Grammatical Voice
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery25.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe have a guest on, Olle Heikilä, who we totally didn’t forget to add to the Skype call, and have a nice discussion on grammatical voice and what it’s for, what you can include, and just in general. If you believe what your English teacher taught… Read more »
Conlangery #24: Possession
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreAfter some observations about the merits of Star Wars and plastic chopsticks, we tell you all kinds of stuff about possession: alienable vs inalienable, various marking strategies, “to have” and more. Oh, and we talk about Abakwi. Top of Show Greeting: rejistanian Conlang: Abakwi Feedback: Email… Read more »
Conlangery #23: Alien Languages
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery23.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe talk a little about what we like and dislike about alien languages — and what concepts we think are actually likely to work. Then we reveiw Ebisédian. Top of Show Greeting: Cardonian Conlang: Ebisédian Feedback:
Conlangery #22: Pronouns
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery22.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreGeorge’s father has pragmatics issues, but anyway … pronouns! (Almost) every language is going to have pronouns of some sort. We talk all kinds — closed-class, open-class, free, clitic, and even having pronouns for bizarrely specific people. Also, we review Baranxe’i Links and Resources: Swahili concord (alternate) Mixtec Xavante… Read more »
Conlangery #21: Poetry
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery21.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreBianca’s out for this episode, so William and I take the opportunity to talk about something she hates so much she wouldn’t let us have a show about it: poetry! Figure out how to choose good poetic devices for your conlang, and how history can affect… Read more »
Conlangery #20: Ideophones
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery20.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe talk about ideophones, a fun, fun class of words that describe a general feeling. We also review a language that’s not quite an elflang, so William doesn’t quite hate it. Top of Show Greeting: Dothraki Links and Resources The Ideophone Ideophone definition Japanese ideophones Daniel… Read more »
Conlangery #19: Role-Marking
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery19.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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 Links and Resources: Fiat Lingua paper Chemehuevi (predicate marking langauge) Lexical Semantics Featured Conlang: Okuna (formerly known as Tokana)
Conlangery #18: Mood
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery18.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreWe 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 Rescources: Wikipedia on… Read more »
Conlangery #17: Aspect
https://media.blubrry.com/conlangery/content.blubrry.com/conlangery/Conlangery17.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS | MoreThe 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:… Read more »
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