The story of human language

Part 1 : Lecture 1. What is language?

Lecture 2. When language began

Lecture 3. How language changes: sound change

Lecture 4. How language changes: building new material

Lecture 5. How language changes: meaning and order

Lecture 6. How language changes: many directions

Lecture 7. How language changes: modern English

Lecture 8. Language families: Indo-European

Lecture 9. Language families: tracing Indo-European

Lecture 10. Language families: diversity of structures

Lecture 11. Language families: clues to the past

Lecture 12. The case against the world's first language.

Part 2 : Lecture 13. The case for the world's first language

Lecture 14. Dialects: subspecies of species

Lecture 15. Dialects: where do you draw the line?

Lecture 16. Dialects: two tongues in one mouth

Lecture 17. Dialects: the standard as token of the past

Lecture 18. Dialects: spoken style, written style

Lecture 19. Dialects: the fallacy of blackboard grammar

Lecture 20. Language mixture: words

Lecture 21. Language mixture: grammar

Lecture 22. Language mixture: language areas

Lecture 23. Language develops beyond the call of duty

Lecture 24. Language interrupted.

Part 3 : Lecture 25. A new perspective on the story of English

Lecture 26. Does culture drive language change?

Lecture 27. Language starts over: Pidgins

Lecture 28. Language starts over: Creoles I

Lecture 29. Language starts over: Creoles II

Lecture 30. Language starts over: signs of the new

Lecture 31. Language starts over: the Creole continuum

Lecture 32. What is Black English?

Lecture 33. Language death: the problem

Lecture 34. Language death: prognosis

Lecture 35. Artificial languages

Lecture 36. Finale: master class.