Third Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar contains nine chapters on adult third language (L3) or multilingual acquisition from the Universal Grammar (UG)

From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learn

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism

This volume presents studies which approach the relatively new field of third language (L3) acquisition from the generative linguistic perspective. It aims to b

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), c