diff --git a/spacy/__init__.py b/spacy/__init__.py
index 9acc566ad..36ff2dd1a 100644
--- a/spacy/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/__init__.py
@@ -8,8 +8,14 @@ from . import util
 
 
 def load(name, **overrides):
-    from .deprecated import resolve_load_name
-    name = resolve_load_name(name, **overrides)
+    depr_path = overrides.get('path')
+    if depr_path not in (True, False, None):
+        util.deprecated(
+            "As of spaCy v2.0, the keyword argument `path=` is deprecated. "
+            "You can now call spacy.load with the path as its first argument, "
+            "and the model's meta.json will be used to determine the language "
+            "to load. For example:\nnlp = spacy.load('{}')".format(depr_path),
+            'error')
     return util.load_model(name, **overrides)
 
 
diff --git a/spacy/deprecated.py b/spacy/deprecated.py
index a1143474a..eafdbe580 100644
--- a/spacy/deprecated.py
+++ b/spacy/deprecated.py
@@ -1,40 +1,4 @@
 # coding: utf8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from .util import prints
-from .cli import download
-from . import about
-
-
 PRON_LEMMA = "-PRON-"
-
-
-def depr_model_download(lang):
-    """Replace en/de download modules within, warn and ownload default models.
-
-    lang (unicode): Language shortcut, 'en' or 'de'.
-    """
-    prints("The spacy.%s.download command is now deprecated. Please use "
-           "spacy download [model name or shortcut] instead. For "
-           "more info, see the documentation:" % lang,
-           about.__docs_models__,
-           "Downloading default '%s' model now..." % lang,
-           title="Warning: deprecated command")
-    download(lang)
-
-
-def resolve_load_name(name, **overrides):
-    """Resolve model loading if deprecated path kwarg in overrides.
-
-    name (unicode): Name of model to load.
-    **overrides: Overrides specified in spacy.load().
-    RETURNS: Model name or value of path kwarg.
-    """
-    if overrides.get('path') not in (None, False, True):
-        name = overrides.get('path')
-        prints("To load a model from a path, you can now use the first "
-               "argument. The model meta is used to load the Language class.",
-               "OLD: spacy.load('en', path='/some/path')",
-               "NEW: spacy.load('/some/path')",
-               title="Warning: deprecated argument 'path'")
-    return name
diff --git a/spacy/lang/de/download.py b/spacy/lang/de/download.py
deleted file mode 100644
index d9ff3652a..000000000
--- a/spacy/lang/de/download.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# coding: utf8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-from ..deprecated import depr_model_download
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    depr_model_download('de')
diff --git a/spacy/lang/en/download.py b/spacy/lang/en/download.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 73133fb48..000000000
--- a/spacy/lang/en/download.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-# coding: utf8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-from ..deprecated import depr_model_download
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    depr_model_download('en')
diff --git a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
index ef31a5d5c..3996819ff 100644
--- a/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokenizer.pyx
@@ -62,7 +62,11 @@ cdef class Tokenizer:
         return (self.__class__, args, None, None)
 
     cpdef Doc tokens_from_list(self, list strings):
-        # TODO: deprecation warning
+        util.deprecated(
+            "Tokenizer.from_from list is now deprecated. Create a new Doc "
+            "object instead and pass in the strings as the `words` keyword "
+            "argument, for example:\nfrom spacy.tokens import Doc\n"
+            "doc = Doc(nlp.vocab, words=[...])")
         return Doc(self.vocab, words=strings)
 
     @cython.boundscheck(False)
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
index dd01343d2..4c3dfc49f 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/doc.pyx
@@ -842,7 +842,10 @@ cdef class Doc:
         """
         cdef unicode tag, lemma, ent_type
         if len(args) == 3:
-            # TODO: Warn deprecation
+            util.deprecated(
+                "Positional arguments to Doc.merge are deprecated. Instead, "
+                "use the keyword arguments, for example tag=, lemma= or "
+                "ent_type=.")
             tag, lemma, ent_type = args
             attributes[TAG] = tag
             attributes[LEMMA] = lemma
diff --git a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
index af88872fb..3253fa738 100644
--- a/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
+++ b/spacy/tokens/token.pyx
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from ..attrs cimport IS_OOV, IS_TITLE, IS_UPPER, LIKE_URL, LIKE_NUM, LIKE_EMAIL
 from ..attrs cimport IS_STOP, ID, ORTH, NORM, LOWER, SHAPE, PREFIX, SUFFIX
 from ..attrs cimport LENGTH, CLUSTER, LEMMA, POS, TAG, DEP
 from ..compat import is_config
+from .. import util
 from .. import about
 from .underscore import Underscore
 
@@ -330,8 +331,14 @@ cdef class Token:
             return self.c.r_kids
 
     property sent_start:
-        # TODO deprecation warning
         def __get__(self):
+            util.deprecated(
+                "Token.sent_start is now deprecated. Use Token.is_sent_start "
+                "instead, which returns a boolean value or None if the answer "
+                "is unknown – instead of a misleading 0 for False and 1 for "
+                "True. It also fixes a quirk in the old logic that would "
+                "always set the property to 0 for the first word of the "
+                "document.")
             # Handle broken backwards compatibility case: doc[0].sent_start
             # was False.
             if self.i == 0: