Who Makes the Rules of Language? | The Language of Language

Podcast: Sleep Stories from the Pioneers · Pioneers of Human Behaviour

Opublikowano: 2026-10-12

Who makes the rules of language? Settle into The Language of Language, a thoughtful sleep story about the words we use, the rules we learn without noticing, and the people who tried to put a living language on the page. Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. The sentence makes no sense, yet somehow we know its grammar works. Tonight, that small puzzle opens a journey through the strange work of using words to describe words. In ancient Mesopotamia, pupils press lists of words into damp clay. In India, Panini builds a grammar with rules about...