Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders)

Lynn Eubank

ISBN 10: 1556192363 / ISBN 13: 9781556192364

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1991

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1st Ed; 1991; John Benjamins Pub Co; Laminated HC in G condition with tight binding; A few random underlining in ink but no highlighting to text; NO DJ; Light edgewear but retains high gloss finish to board.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1561937519007

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556192363
• ISBN 13: 9781556192364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion of other fundamental questions, viz., the explanatory potential of linguistic theory in native-language development. It may come as no surprise that the contributors and their respondents often present very different perspectives on the issues, for most of the authors were known in advance to hold contrasting points of view. Contributors (c) and Respondents (r) are: Wolfgang Klein (c)/Nina Hyams (r); Sascha Felix (c)/Jacquelyn Schachter (r); Suzanne Flynn & Sharon Manuel (c)/David Birdsong (r); Lydia White (c)/Robert Bley-Vroman (r); Peter Jordens (c)/Lynn Eubank (r); Jurgen Meisel (c)/Bonnie Schwartz (r); Sharon Hilles (c)/William O'Grady (r); Daniel Finer (c)/Margaret Thomas (r); Usha Lakshmanan (c)/Nina Hymans & Ken Safir (r).