Structuring space in discourse: A comparison of Chinese, English, French and German LI and English, French and German L2 acquisition

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. The Structure of Learner Varieties: Introduction to the volume 1
4. Part I: Referential movement
5. Reference to persons and objects in the function of subject in Learner Varieties 19
6. Reference to person in learner discourse 65
7. Structuring space in discourse: A comparison of Chinese, English, French and German LI and English, French and German L2 acquisition 111
8. Two dimensions of the representation of complex event structures: granularity and condensation. Towards a typology of textual production in LI and L2 157
9. Cross-linguistic analysis of temporal perspectives in text production 203
10. Determinants in first and second language acquisition: person, space, and time in discourse across languages 231
11. Part II: Scope
12. The semantic knowledge base for the acquisition of negation and the acquisition of finiteness 263
13. The acquisition of negation in Italian L2 315
14. The acquisition of negation in French L2. An analysis of Moroccan Arabic and Spanish “learner varieties” 355
15. Additive and Restrictive Particles in Italian as a Second Language. Embedding in the verbal utterance structure 405
16. Additive Scope Particles in Advanced Learner and Native Speaker Discourse 445
17. Reading from outside: Acquisitional patterns in a cross-linguistic approach 489
18. Index 505