Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. About the contributors ix
5. The development of L2 tense-aspect in the Romance languages 1
6. The acquisition of perfective and imperfective morphology and the marking of discourse grounding in Catalan 35
7. The acquisition of tense and aspect in L2 French from a Universal Grammar perspective 79
8. Italian tense-aspect morphology in child L2 acquisition 129
9. Evidence for transfer of knowledge of aspect from L2 Spanish to L3 Portuguese 179
10. From empirical findings to the teaching of aspectual distinctions 211
11. Towards a comprehensive model of the acquisition of L2 tense-aspect in the Romance languages 253
12. References 283
13. Index 307