Universal Grammar in Second-language Acquisition: A History

by Thomas, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780203416396
• ISBN10: 0203416392
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134388530
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This book discusses how scholars in the west have conceived that human languages share important properties, and how westerners have understood the nature of second or foreign language learning.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ancient Greece and Rome

Languages and Language Learning from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian Renaissance

The Middle Ages

From Discovery of the Particular to Seventeenth-Century Universal Languages

General Grammer Through the Nineteenth Century

Conceptualization of Universal Grammer and Second Language Learning in the Twentieth Century

Afterword

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