1.
What Is Language?
2.
When Language Began
3.
How Language Changes — Sound Change
4.
How Language Changes — Building New Material
5.
How Language Changes — Meaning and Order
6.
How Language Changes — Many Directions
7.
How Language Changes — Modern English
8.
Language Families — Indo-European
9.
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
