LEADER 03828nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910973571103321 005 20251116173601.0 010 $a1-134-38853-5 010 $a1-280-03673-7 010 $a0-203-41639-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000255884 035 $a(EBL)3060388 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000312415 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11265920 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000312415 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10350428 035 $a(PQKB)11316704 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3060388 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3060388 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10098862 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL3673 035 $a(OCoLC)56573401 035 $a(BIP)63701254 035 $a(BIP)40189309 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000255884 100 $a20031210d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUniversal grammar in second language acquisition $ea history /$fMargaret Thomas 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-415-65469-6 311 08$a0-415-31037-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 214-248) and index. 327 $aAncient 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 grammar through the nineteenth century -- Conceptualization of universal grammar and second language learning in the twentieth century. 330 $aFrom 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 of second or foreign language learning. In narrating these two stories, the author argues that modern second language acquisition theory needs to reassess what counts as its own past. The book addresses Greek contributions to the prehistory of universal grammar, Roman bilingualism, the emergence of the first foreign language grammars in the early Middle Ages, and the Medieval speculative grammarians efforts to define the essentials of human language. The author shows how after the renaissance expanded people's awareness of language differences, scholars returned to the questions of universals in the context of second language learning, including in the 1660 Port-Royal grammar which Chomsky notoriously celebrated in Cartesian Linguistics. The book then looks at how Post-Saussurean European linguistics and American structuralism up to modern generative grammar have each differently conceived of universals and language learning. Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition is a remarkable contribution to the history of linguistics and will be essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, specialists in second language acquisition and language teacher-educators. 606 $aSecond language acquisition$xHistory 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xHistory 615 0$aSecond language acquisition$xHistory. 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xHistory. 676 $a418/.009 686 $a17.02$2bcl 700 $aThomas$b Margaret$g(Margaret Ann),$f1952-$01817322 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973571103321 996 $aUniversal grammar in second language acquisition$94475568 997 $aUNINA