Conlangery #108: Obviation

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“