Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables viii
4. Contributors xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Finite Verb Placement in French Language Change and in Bilingual German–French Acquisition 10
7. 2. Wh-fronting and Wh-in-situ in the Acquisition of French: Really Variants? 43
8. 3. On the Processing of Subject Clefts in English-French Interlanguage: Parsing to Learn and the Subject Relativizer qui 66
9. 4. Verbal Transitivity Development in First Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Russian, French and English 94
10. 5. Static and Dynamic Location in French and German Child Language 118
11. 6. Can L2 Learners Learn New Ways to Conceptualize Events? A New Approach to Restructuring in Motion Event Construal 145
12. 7. A Bidirectional Study: Is There Any Role for Transfer in Adjective Placement? 185
13. 8. Parameters, Processing and Feature Reassembly in the L2 French Determiner Phrase 215
14. 9. Concluding Remarks 234
15. References 242
16. Index 265