17
The Kinds of Grammar You Don't Hear About
Lecture no. 17 from the course: Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage
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Taught by Professor John McWhorter | 30 min
Explore features of the language that are off the beaten track of conventional grammar. For example, handbooks often decry the use of the passive voice, but it can be a powerful tool-as in passive expressions using got, which acts as a marker of misfortune....
24 Lectures
1
Alarm over the Decay of English
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of 31 min
2
Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English
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of 30 min
3
Not Exactly Anglo-Saxon
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of 30 min
4
Don't Forget the Celtic Connection
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of 30 min
5
From Insider Language to Lingua Franca
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of 30 min
6
English as Easy German
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of 28 min
7
The Viking Conquest of English
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of 27 min
8
How the Words of Modern English Emerged
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of 31 min
9
Black English-The Streamlining Continues
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of 29 min
10
Honored Conceits of Blackboard Grammar
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of 31 min
11
Pronoun Fashions Come and Go
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of 30 min
12
Wrong Then, Proper Now-and Vice Versa
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of 29 min
13
A Procession of Accidents and Fossils
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of 30 min
14
The Pursuit of Logic in Language
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of 29 min
15
Clarity as the Logic of Language
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of 30 min
16
20th-Century Fashions from Strunk & White
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of 31 min
17
The Kinds of Grammar You Don't Hear About
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of 30 min
18
Linguists Uncovering Grammar We All Use
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of 31 min
19
Speech versus Writing-Different Languages
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of 32 min
20
Speechmaking-From Oratory to Plain Speaking
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of 33 min
21
The Old and New Styles of Writing
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of 32 min
22
Got Poetry? Language with Spice
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of 34 min
23
Why Texting Is Misunderstood
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of 30 min
24
The Living Past and Future of English
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of 34 min
