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Crash Course Linguistics

Syntax 1 - Morphosyntax

Welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! Linguistics is everywhere and is super useful for pretty much everyone. Over 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke will teach you all about language, from its structure, to the relationship between language and our identity, the brain, and computers, to writing, language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages!

Syntax 1 - Morphosyntax

Season 1 Episode 3 | 10m 43s | CC

Grammar sometimes gets a bad reputation, but we're actually doing grammar all the time! And we're pretty good at it! In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, we began the discussion of syntax by learning how we can take words and morphemes and turn them into sentences, questions, and stories.

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