Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Deconstructing the native speaker -- Chapter 2: Nativity and the nation state -- Chapter 3: Antiquity and the absence of ethnolinguistic nationalism -- Chapter 4: From sermo patrius to lingua materna -- Chapter 5: Abstracting the secular: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the eighteenth century -- Chapter 6: Reconstructing Eden: Genealogies of language in the nineteeth century -- Chapter 7: Scholarship in the maternal arboretum of language -- Conclusion -- Backmatter