Use it or lose it! An introduction to language death

Use it or lose it! An introduction to language death

Why are some languages living on borrowed time? Is there life after death for a language? And could your language be next? Tune into this episode to find out the answers to these questions and many more! Linguistics HQ will now take a summer break but will return on September 2nd with a new series, so do subscribe so that you don't miss out!

How to lose a language in three generations: an introduction to language shift

Why do grandchildren always seem to answer in the wrong language? Can a language lose a popularity contest? And is language shift just rebranding with better marketing? Tune into this episode to find out!

The language remix: an introduction to pidgins and creoles

Could you survive an Arctic trading expedition armed with twenty words and your creativity? When is a pidgin fully fledged? And how can you accidentally invent a language? Tune into today's episode to find out!

A double take on contact phenomena: an introduction to code-switching

Do you ever start a sentence in one language and terminarla en otra? Would you like to learn a cunning way to make people think you're bilingual? And the ancient grammarians are back! Tune in da learn bagaimana multilingual speakers miksaju i matchaju on a daily basis!

Grammar on the move: an introduction to syntactic borrowing

Do you know your Balkans from your Baltic? Does that preposition have a passport? And how did the Normans get their own back on us for borrowing so many of their words? Tune into this episode on syntactic borrowing to find out about structural borrowing and convergence!