Some copies include 1 guidebook containing all 3 parts (201 p., 20 cm.).
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.
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.
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.
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.