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Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext This book addresses the tradition of ahistoricity within the field of second language (L2) acquisition theory. The author shows that L2 theory has a long and fruitful past within western linguistics and that notions of universal grammar have for some time shaped, and been shaped by, people's understanding of L2 learning. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
