Story of Human Language

What Is Language?

When Language Began

How Language Changes — Sound Change

How Language Changes — Building New Material

How Language Changes — Meaning and Order

How Language Changes — Many Directions

How Language Changes — Modern English

Language Families — Indo-European

Language Families — Tracing Indo-European

Language Families — Diversity of Structures

Language Families — Clues to the Past

The Case Against the World’s First Language

The Case for the World’s First Language

Dialects — Subspecies of Species

Dialects — Where Do You Draw the Line?

Dialects — Two Tongues in One Mouth

Dialects — The Standard as Token of the Past

Dialects — Spoken Style, Written Style

Dialects — The Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar

Language Mixture — Words

Language Mixture — Grammar

Language Mixture — Language Areas

Language Develops Beyond the Call of Duty

Language Interrupted

A New Perspective on the Story of English

Does Culture Drive Language Change?

Language Starts Over — Pidgins

Language Starts Over — Creoles I

Language Starts Over — Creoles II

Language Starts Over — Signs of the New

Language Starts Over — The Creole Continuum

What Is Black English?

Language Death — The Problem

Language Death — Prognosis

Artificial Languages

Finale — Master Class