Conlangery 145: Building with Polysemy
George brings on Ezekiel Fordsmender and Margaret Randsdell-Green to talk about techniques for creating polysemous lexical entries. Top of Show Greeting: Chicken Links and Resources: CLICS3 Wiktionary (esp. Arabic, Latvian, Scottish Gaelic words) STEDT Lakoff, G. (2008) Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind . University of Chicago press. Heine, B., Bernd, H., & Kuteva, T. (2002) World lexicon of grammaticalization . Cambridge University Press. Dent G.R. & C.L.S. Nyembezi (1969) Scholar’s Zulu dictionary. Pietermaritzburg, Shuter and Shooter. Gamta, T. (2004) Comprehensive Oromo-English Dictionary. New York : Karrayyuu Pub Bates, D., Hess, T., & Hilbert, V. (1994) Lushootseed dictionary . University of Washington Press. Annis, William S. (2014) “ A Conlanger’s Thesaurus. ” Fiat Lingua , Transcript PDF transcript Download Plain Text Download {00:00:00} {Greeting} {Music} George: Welcome to Conlangery, the podcast about constructed languages and the people who create them. I’m George Corley with – Zeke, where are you? Ezekiel: I’m in Philadelphia. George: Okay. Over in Philly we have Ezekiel Fordsmender. Ezekiel: Hi, how are you guys doing? George: Over in Hawaii, we have Margaret Ransdell-Green. Margaret: Hello. George: Both of these people are on for the reason that they are both really good with polysemy. Margaret, you did a talk at last year’s LCC about it, right? I just recently managed to watch that. For some reason I had not watched it before. But that was interesting. Also, if you look at Zeke’s Lexember entries, those are a very good example of how to do very rich dictionary entries with lots of senses. Ezekiel: You can find Margaret’s talk on the Language Creation Society YouTube Channel. My Lexember stuff – I keep all of that on Twitter actually, so my handle is @Fordsmender. That’s F-O-R-D-S-M-E-N-D-E-R. Margaret: Yeah. My Lexember and everything is – I’ve done various things like that at different times. That’s all on Twitter for me as well. My handle is @MintakaGlow – M-I-N-T-A-K-A. Some of my stuff is there – some of which is heavy with polysemy and some of it is not. All my lexicon stuff I tend to put up there. George: Well, I mean, we’ll talk about that in a minute about how much polysemy do you want to include in a language with {inaudible} {00:02:50}. First of all, before we get into the subject, I have to handle the money stuff. Conlangery is entirely supported by our patrons. Go to patreon.com/conlangery to show your support. We’ve got some rewards there. A couple things about that. Thanks to our patrons and me working out the numbers, something that we’ve just recently been able to do is start doing transcripts of all episodes. What I have – based on the budget I’ve made for it – is I have somebody doing transcriptions of all new discussion episodes. Then, every month she’s also going to do a past episode. That will take years to get through the back catalogue, but it is a way to get started on it. Here’s where the Patreon comes in. That takes money. If I can get more money in the Patreon, then I can do something like, “Oh, I can get those transcripts done faster” or the back catalogue. Other things can be equipment. Just recently, because of the money I had in my account from the Patreon, I got some acoustic foam for my recording booth here. My daughter helped me set it up – “helped,” in quotes. She’s 4. Hopefully, I will sound a little bit less like I am recording in the middle of a bathroom because the storage room – yeah. It needed a little bit of improvement of the acoustics. {Cut in with less reverb} And as you can hear right there, I had not gotten it totally figured out as to how to use the foam and how to actually get a good sound. {end cut in} {00:05:02} Right now, I have a reasonably good solution, so hopefully episodes from here on out will sound good. With more money, I could get a better microphone, all kinds of better recording equipment. That’s other things.