Margaret Thomas

Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisition

A History

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415654692
• ISBN-10: 0415654696
• Artikelnr.: 36540691

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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