36.3574, Books: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition: Shormani (2025)

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Date: 20-Nov-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition: Shormani (2025)


Title: Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
Subtitle: Issues from Arab Context
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 70
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d%2FProducts%2F%22ISBN%209783969392584%22

Author(s): Mohammed Q. Shormani

ISBN 9783969392584 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Theoretical
Linguistics 70. 250pp. 2025. EUR 124.00.

Abstract:

Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition: Issues from Arab
Context is a scholarly edited volume that introduces the generative
approaches to language acquisition, unveiling important issues from
Arab context. It consists of two parts: Part I provides theoretical
foundations of how L1/L2 takes place, how Universal Grammar (UG)
shapes it, the role language faculty plays in it, enabling learners to
re-set the parameters, already set by L1, according to L2 given the L2
linguistic input the learner is exposed to. Part II, however, tackles
empirical issues, focusing on the acquisition of phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, and interfaces. The book appeals to
linguists, language acquisition scholars and students, in its two
spheres, viz. L1 and L2 acquisition. The generative approaches
introduced, specifically Mentalism within the Principles and
Parameters (P&P) and Minimalism approaches, provide substantial
insights into how learners, be they children or adults, acquire L1 or
L2, and elaborate on how generative approaches account for these
phenomena, specifically in terms of the UG genetic and innate
endowment every learner is born with. The book concerns university
policymakers, with the theoretical and empirical insights into L2
acquisition, and the pedagogical implications it provides that can be
implemented in Arab (and non-Arab) university classroom.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Written In: English (eng)



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