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Conlangery Podcast

Conlangery #108: Obviation

Apr 6, 2015
41:57

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Quick takeaways

  • Obviation is a way of marking third-person arguments in a sentence based on discourse, clarifying who does what to who.
  • Obviation is a tool for managing multiple third-person entities and tracking referents in a narrative or discourse, and can be incorporated in conlanging to highlight central characters or narrative perspectives.

Deep dives

Discourse Events and Announcements

The podcast begins with announcements about upcoming events in April, including a linguistic workshop in Madison and the Language Creations Conference in the UK.

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