Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses

Today, 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, guys. I just listened to your plea for more feedback in episode 71 and figured I ought to finally respond to that. So, here are some more details on my lexicography project. The project right now is called LexTerm, and aims to provide a bridge between termbases (primarily used for technical translation) and general dictionaries. That particular feature is aimed mainly at translators. What I will get credit for this semester is essentially being able to import and export TBX termbase files and view the entries either as terminological entries or as lexical entries in a dictionary (thus assisting in generating termbases from existing multilingual dictionaries and generating dictionaries from existing termbases), so that is what I am focused on until January, at which point I may or may not continue with the research internship to continue developing more features. However, the whole project will be Free and Open Source, and my academic credit depends only on the project getting done by some means, not on who actually writes the code, so I’m free to let other people work on it and start adding additional features even before my internship is over. The lexicography half is pitched as assisting field linguists, and that actually happens to be true, not *just* an excuse to work on conlanging, but I expect the features desired by either group to overlap extensively. If anybody’s interested in helping out, I would first suggest looking up information on TBX Term Base eXchange format (http://www.ttt.org/oscarStandards/tbx/) as well as LMF Lexical Markup Framework (http://www.lexicalmarkupframework.org/), as those are the existing standards that I’m basing this work on. I’ll be putting the project up on GitHub for easier collaboration eventually, but in the meantime potential contributors are free to e-mail me at [email protected].