Investigating the L2 initial state

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Inquiries in linguistic development 1
4. I. Learnability and parameter setting
5. ‘Passive’ unaccusative errors in L2 English revisited 17
6. Manner-of-motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 English and Japanese 41
7. A semantic parameter with a syntactic trigger in the L2 acquisition of Italian 69
8. Investigating the L2 initial state 89
9. L1 phonotactic knowledge and the L2 acquisition of alternations 115
10. II. Variability
11. Morphological variability in the development of L2 French morphosyntax 135
12. Full transfer vs. partial transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition 157
13. A representational licensing-based account of asymmetries in the L2 acquisition of place 189
14. Processing reduced relative versus main verb ambiguity in English as a Second Language 213
15. Formalism and functionalism working together? 233
16. III. Incomplete ultimate attainment
17. L2 acquisition of pragmatic and syntactic constraints in the use of overt and null subject pronouns 259
18. L2 end state grammars and incomplete acquisition of Spanish CLLD constructions 283
19. Knowledge of clitic doubling in Spanish 305
20. Incomplete acquisition as a feature of bilingual and L2 grammars 335
21. Index 361