Conlangery Podcast

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)

This episode, William tells us about the noun classifications in Palikúr, a language with both gender and numeral classifers (once thought impossible) and a couple other classifications aside. EDIT: An earlier version of the shownotes linked to the JSTOR page of the Aikenvald and Green paper. The new link goes to a page where you can download the paper directly. Links and Resources Palikúr and the Typology of Classifiers (Aikenvald and Green 1998)

Today we review the Akana conlang Kataputi. In other news, the Sixth Language Creation Conference happened. Links below. Also, George is getting his Masters. Top of Show Greeting: Old English/Anglo-Saxon (translated and read by Scott Brewer) Links and Resources Kataputi Proto-Dumic Announced bits William’s post about legal stuff LCC6 site Day 1, part 1 Day 1, part 2 Day 2

Support Conlangery on Patreon! Announcements: David Salo talking at WiGL on April 11, in Madison, WI, USA The Sixth Language Creation Conference will be on April 25-26 in Horsham, UK Bianca joins us today for an episode on obviation, just another option for managing discourse while clarifying who does what to who. Also, we have a couple interesting digressions on direct/inverse verb agreement systems and George’s hindsight on the appropriateness of a certain story. Links and Resources: A little introduction to obviation “Focus, obviation, and word order in East Cree“ “Obviation as discourse structure in Swampy Cree acimowin“ “Syntactic direction and obviation as empathy-based phenomena: a typological approach“ “THE OBVIATION HIERARCHY AND MORPHO SYNTACTIC MARKEDNESS“ “Obviation, Inversion, and Topic Rank in Ojibwa“

Christophe Grandsire-Koevoets comes on to talk about his conlang Moten. Top of Show Greeting: Nærut Nɑnɑ́rɑ Links and Resources: The Moten page of Christophe’s blog Christophe’s presentation at LCC4

Suzette Haden Elgin passed away on January 27th. She will be missed. You can now support Conlangery on Patreon! William can now talk about conlanging he did for a videogame! In this episode, George and William go over the wonderful diversity of auxiliary verb constructions! So much to think about! Links and Resources: Auxiliary Verb Constructions in the languages of Africa Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Old Turkic and Altai-Sayan Turkic  

This episode, George highlights a few words from last year’s #Lexember event. Words: ihar kopoyamtuki snūgā kwägilärä naagari hintul chyubīne tneban fri

Today 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.

Today 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 Structure of Navajo A bunch of learning resources Reversing Navajo Language Shift (book chapter) A Computational Analysis of Navajo Verb Stems (This is the one George called out as dealing with analogy) Aspects of Navajo Verb Morphology and Syntax: The Inchoative Remarks on the Syntax of the Navajo Verb Part I: Preliminary Observations on the Structure of the Verb An Experiment in Computational Parsing of the Navajo Verb Bibliography on Navajo (for those who have access to academic articles and want to do a deep dive)

Today 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 the mind: Using space to think about time Spatial Metaphors in Temporal Reasoning