TY  - BOOK
AU  - McWhorter,John
ED  - Teaching Company
TI  - The story of human language
T2  - The great courses
SN  - 1565859499
AV  - LB 14.6 M478s 2004
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chantilly, Va.
PB  - Teaching Co.
KW  - Educación
KW  - Enseñanza
KW  - Análisis linguístico
KW  - Lingüística
KW  - Linguística
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estudio y enseñanza
KW  - Dialectología
KW  - Lenguaje y lenguas
KW  - Filosofía
N1  - Course no. 1600
; "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover; 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
N2  - Course explores many of the common questions about language, such as: Why isn't there just a single language? Or, How does a language change, and when it does, is that change indicative of decay or growth?
ER  -