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Crash Course Linguistics

Language Change and Historical Linguistics

Season 1 Episode 13

Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We learn about how and why languages change, what happens when languages come into contact with each other, how linguists piece together the history of a language and more.

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Syntax 1 - Morphosyntax
10:43
We start our discussion of syntax and how we morph words into questions and stories.
Morphology
10:28
We’re diving into the topic of morphology and what makes up these things we call words.
What is Linguistics?
11:19
Linguistics is the study of language, but what does that even mean?
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