Conlangery Podcast
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The podcast about constructed languages
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Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses
22/10/2012 Duración: 01h16minToday, we have a barely controlled, but good, discussion of relative clauses. David’s presentation on the Defiance langs is on YouTube. Links and Resources: Wikipedia on Relative Clauses WALS: Relativization on Subjects WALS: Relativization on Obliques Internally headed relative clauses in Japanese and Navajo Relative clauses in Lojban Feedback: Email from Logan: Thanks for the shout-out,... Read more »
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Conlangery #71: Ogami (natlang)
15/10/2012 Duración: 01h05minToday, we all talk about the wonderful nuclear-fricitiveness of Ogami, a real life natural language in the Ryukyuan family. It’s got lots of little bits to inspire you in your conlangs. Enjoy! Top of Show Greeting: Mandarin Chinese (translation help and recording by Starrie Li (李昕)) Featured NATLANG: Ogami
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Conlangery #70: Practicum — the Pitfalls of Frameworks
08/10/2012 Duración: 01h33minKickstarter I mentioned at the top of the show. Today, we finally get to talk about why David hates morphemes, among other things. Top of Show Greeting: Tslure Thujekatsoth Links and Resources: David’s LCC1 talk about Morphemes More explanation from David And more and more I don’t know why David put all his own stuff in... Read more »
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Conlangery #69: Asha’ille
01/10/2012 Duración: 50minThis week we talk about one of the older languages in the conlang community, Arthaey’s Asha’ille. And no, that spelling has nothing at all to do with the language’s phonology. You’ll learn a bit about that in the episode. Top of Show Greeting: Ostunese Featured Conlang: Asha’ille
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Conlangery #68: Agglutination
24/09/2012 Duración: 01h09minWe are super excited to reveal that our third host for (we hope) the duration of William’s absence will be none other than David J. Peterson! Take a listen as we talk through the challenges of making an agglutinative language that isn’t depressingly boring. Top of Show Greeting: Kihā́mmic Feedback: Email from (another) Michael: Hey guys, I’ve... Read more »
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Conlangery #67: Alũbetah
17/09/2012 Duración: 57minBianca joins us as we tackle a fun and wacky conlang with some serious phonological processes. Top of Show Greeting: Neo-Simikaka Featured Conlang: Alũbetah Feedback: Email: Hi guys, Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. Loving the podcast, keep up the good work. Only discovered it a few weeks ago, but have worked my way back through most of your... Read more »
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Conlangery #66: Conceptual Metaphors
10/09/2012 Duración: 01h08minToday we have a very enlightening discussion about conceptual metaphors and how thinking about them can help you avoid a relex as well as have loads of fun in usage and translation. Also, this will be William’s last episode for a while
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Conlangery #65: Tayéin
03/09/2012 Duración: 01h30minWilliam is leaving (temporarily), but don’t worry, we have one more episode before he goes. Also, we talk with Eric about his lovely language Tayéin Top of Show Greeting: Frixàð Featured Conlang: Tayéin Feedback: Email from Sai: George, William, & Mike – Howdy. Alex & I were just listening to your podcast #62 while on a... Read more »
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Conlangery #64: Head-marking vs Dependent-marking
27/08/2012 Duración: 54minToday we tackle a very interesting typology topic: head-marking and dependant-marking. Turns out that whether your language leans one way or another affects (or depends on) a wide variety of grammatical features. Be sure to check the links below for additional info. Top of Show Greeting: Toki Pona (translated by Vadim Fomin) Links and Resources: Great... Read more »
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Conlangery #63: Kuot (natlang)
13/08/2012 Duración: 45minToday, we cover one of the weird and wonderful languages of Papua New Guinea. It turns out to be surprisingly not so weird, but there’s still quite a few things in it to inspire conlangers. Do check out the crazy verbs though — that bit is quite nuts. Top of Show Greeting: Pøplish Featured NATLANG: Kuot
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Conlangery #62: Practicum — Anaphora and Co-reference
06/08/2012 Duración: 01h02minToday we tackle a big grammar and discourse topic: anaphora and co-referentiality. We go through a list of options you have for cleaning up ambiguities and keeping your discourse coherent. Just don’t throw them all into the same conlang. Top of Show Greeting: Minhast Links and Resources: Indexicality, Logophorality, and Plural Pronouns Logophor in Ogonoid... Read more »
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Conlangery #61: amman îar
30/07/2012 Duración: 01h08minThis week we cover the monumental and yet incomplete amman îar, a heavily Tolkien-inspired language that nevertheless manages to have its own flavor. Top of Show Greeting: Uskra Featured Conlang: amman îar Feedback: Email from FE: Howdy, I don’t know if someone has already addressed this, however, in episode 40 you discussed the ubiquity of... Read more »
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Conlangery #60: Syllable and Word Shapes
23/07/2012 Duración: 49minSo, for various reasons we have now changed the format of the show. Now we will be doing only one topic per show, alternating weeks between discussion topics and featured conlangs. We hope that this addresses the issues some people have had with show length while still allowing us to have thick, meaty discussions. As... Read more »
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Conlangery #59: Loan Words
16/07/2012 Duración: 01h27minToday we take some time to talk to you about a conworldy topic: loan words in your conlang. What words are likely to be borrowed? What kinds of situations cause borrowing? And how does grammar work for loan words? Also, we talk about Kebreni, our second feature of an Almean language. Top of Show Greeting:... Read more »
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Conlangery #58: Practicum — Things you can do with the Middle Voice
09/07/2012 Duración: 01h32minThis week, we talk all about the middle voice and the many things that that covers, as well as give you all sorts of options to make your own creative use of this feature. We also have a featured natlang today that has very interesting features as well as some hilarious crackpot historical theories around... Read more »
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Conlangery #57: Animacy and Agency
02/07/2012 Duración: 01h28minAfter a short update on George’s grad school situation and some musing over our tagline, we get to talking about the very complex interactions that animacy and agency can have with the rest of your grammar. Then we talk about Interlingua, a very boring auxlang that appears to be comfortably readable by anyone who speaks... Read more »
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Conlangery #56: Growing a Lexicon
25/06/2012 Duración: 02h01minDavid Peterson joins us for a wonderful Supersize episode where we talk all about growing your lexicon, from generating roots to creating realistic polysemy and semantic fields. Also, we finally feature an obscure little language we’ve wanted to talk about for a while
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Conlangery #55: Practicum — Getting Rid of Tense
18/06/2012 Duración: 01h02minWe give you a podcast today about how you can do without tense, and what other things in the language can be used to fill in the gaps. Also, we have special guest Jeffrey Jones on to talk about his conlang. Top of Show: Sheewan Links and Resources: Vietnamese tense/aspect marking Telicity (Wikipedia) Featured Conlang: K’tlê... Read more »
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Conlangery #54: Reduplication
11/06/2012 Duración: 01h32minToday is a big show where we tackle the topic of reduplication, something we think more conlangers should employ. Then we talk about a wonderfully crazy click langauge called Sandawe — and it’s natural! Top of Show Greeting: Chudihr Links and Resources Iyo Grammar (see p. 21) Spokan (reduplication talk begins on p. 111) Reduplication... Read more »
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Conlangery #53: Topicalization
04/06/2012 Duración: 01h07minAfter a short update on rain in Wisconsin and ankle injuries, we try to make sense of the topic of topicalization and topic prominent languages. Then we talk about Talmit, a language created by active Conlangery listener and commenter Roman Rausch Top of Show Greeting: Grewa Resources: Nice paper on topicalization Featured Conlang: Talmit (LCC talk,... Read more »