Tracklist
- 1What Is Language?
- 2When Language Began
- 3How Language Changes — Sound Change
- 4How Language Changes — Building New Material
- 5How Language Changes — Meaning and Order
- 6How Language Changes — Many Directions
- 7How Language Changes — Modern English
- 8Language Families — Indo-European
- 9Language Families — Tracing Indo-European
- 10Language Families — Diversity of Structures
- 11Language Families — Clues to the Past
- 12The Case Against the World’s First Language
- 13The Case for the World’s First Language
- 14Dialects — Subspecies of Species
- 15Dialects — Where Do You Draw the Line?
- 16Dialects — Two Tongues in One Mouth
- 17Dialects — The Standard as Token of the Past
- 18Dialects — Spoken Style, Written Style
- 19Dialects — The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar
- 20Language Mixture — Words
- 21Language Mixture — Grammar
- 22Language Mixture — Language Areas
- 23Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty
- 24Language Interrupted
- 25A New Perspective on the Story of English
- 26Does Culture Drive Language Change?
- 27Language Starts Over — Pidgins
- 28Language Starts Over — Creoles I
- 29Language Starts Over — Creoles II
- 30Language Starts Over — Signs of the New
- 31Language Starts Over — The Creole Continuum
- 32What Is Black English?
- 33Language Death — The Problem
- 34Language Death — Prognosis
- 35Artificial Languages
- 36Finale — Master Class
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