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Full Talk:
"What is Klingon?"
Friday, November 21st, 2014 1-2:15pm

Abstract:
The Klingon language, which began as a few lines of dialogue in the first Star Trek movie, has grown to be what the Guinness Book of World Records once dubbed the world’s “largest fictional language.”

This talk will review the origins of the language, why its grammar and vocabulary developed the way they did, and then focus on how it fares in the “real world.”

Bio:
Marc Okrand is a linguist whose career has been dedicated to documentation of extinct Native American languages, development of language technologies, and the creation of Klingon and other constructed languages. He devised the dialogue and coached the actors speaking Klingon in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and Star Trek Into Darkness. In addition, he created the Vulcan dialogue for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III, and both Vulcan and Romulan dialogue for 2009’s Star Trek. He also created the Atlantean language for the animated feature Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Dr. Okrand holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from UC Berkeley; his dissertation constructed a grammar of Mutsun, an extinct Ohlonean language formerly spoken in central California. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution, he spent 34 years at the National Captioning Institute, managing the closed captioning of television programs. He is a member of the board of directors of the theater company WSC Avant Bard in Arlington, VA. In addition to his published work on Klingon, he has written on linguistics and closed captioning for several journals and anthologies.