Universal grammar in second language acquisition : a history / / Margaret Thomas.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Thomas, Margaret 1952-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 262 p.

Table of Contents

• 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 grammar through the nineteenth century
• Conceptualization of universal grammar and second language learning in the twentieth century.