1st Edition
Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition A History
By Margaret Thomas
Copyright 2004
272 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning. This book tells two stories: the story of how scholars in the west have conceived of the fact that human languages share important properties despite their obvious differences, and the story of how westerners have understood the nature... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Ancient Greece and Rome 3. Languages and Language Learning from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian Renaissance 4. The Middle Ages 5. From Discovery of the Particular to Seventeenth-Century Universal Languages 6. General Grammer Through the Nineteenth Century 7. Conceptualization of Universal Grammer and Second Language Learning in the Twentieth Century 8. Afterword
Biography
Margaret Thomas is Associate Professor in the Program in Linguistics at Boston College. She is the author of Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language (1993), and has published articles in Language, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Research, The Linguistic Review and Historiographia Linguistica
'This book would clearly be at home on the reading list of courses in the history of linguistics. In addition, it would be a thought-provoking addition to courses on L2 acquisition research. It is well-written and painstakingly referenced.' - Linguist List
