The Story of Human Language

[01] What Is Language? [02] When Language Began [03] How Language Changes: Sound Change [04] How Language Changes: Building New Material [05] How Language Changes: Meaning and Order [06] How Language Changes: Many Directions [07] How Language Changes: Modern English [08] Language Families: Indo: European [09] Language Families: Tracing Indo: European [10] Language Families: Diversity of Structures [11] Language Families: Clues to the Past [12] The Case Against the World's First Language [13] The Case For the World's First Language [14] Dialects: Subspecies of Species [15] Dialects: Where Do You Draw the Line? [16] Dialects: Two Tongues in One Mouth [17] Dialects: The Standard as Token of the Past [18] Dialects: Spoken Style, Written Style [19] Dialects: The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar [20] Language Mixture: Words [21] Language Mixture: Grammar [22] Language Mixture: Language Areas [23] Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty [24] Language Interrupted [25] A New Perspective on the Story of English [26] Does Culture Drive Language Change? [27] Language Starts Over: Pidgins [28] Language Starts Over: Creoles I [29] Language Starts Over: Creoles II [30] Language Starts Over: Signs of the New [31] Language Starts Over: The Creole Continuum [32] What Is Black English? [33] Language Death: The Problem [34] Language Death: Prognosis [35] Artificial Languages [36] Finale: Master Class