Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Introduction: New Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Language Acquisition – Clive Perdue’s Legacy 1
5. Part 1: Second Language Acquisition: From Initial to Final Stages
6. 1. A Way to Look at Second Language Acquisition 23
7. 2. L2 Input and the L2 Initial State: The Writings of Clive Perdue 37
8. 3. Finiteness and the Acquisition of Negation 54
9. 4. The Different Role of Additive and Negative Particles in the Development of Finiteness in Early Adult L2 German and L2 Dutch 73
10. 5. Lexical Categories in the Target Language and the Lexical Categorisation of Learners: The Word Class of Adverbs 92
11. 6. Is it Necessary for Chinese Mandarin Speakers to Mark Time? Refl ections About the Use of Temporal Adverbs with Respect to Verbal Morphology 108
12. 7. The Development of Reference to Time and Space in French L3: Evidence from Narratives 133
13. 8. Verbal Morphology in Advanced Varieties of English L2: Aspect or Discourse Hypothesis? 153
14. 9. High-Level Profi ciency in Second Language Use: Morphosyntax and Discourse 170
15. 10. Ultimate Attainment and the Critical Period Hypothesis: Some Thorny Issues 188
16. 11. Language Origins, Learner Varieties and Creating Language Anew: How Acquisitional Studies Can Contribute to Language Evolution Research 204
17. 12. Multiple Perspectives on the Emergence and Development of Human Language: B. Comrie, C. Perdue and D. Slobin 223
18. Part 2: L1 and L2 Acquisition: Learner Type Perspective
19. 13. Child Language Study and Adult Language Acquisition: Twenty Years Later 245
20. 14. The Derivation of Mixed DPs: Mixing of Functional Categories in Bilingual Children and in Second Language Learners 263
21. 15. L1 or L2 Acquisition? Finiteness in Child Second Language Learners (cL2), Compared to Adult L2 Learners (aL2) and Young Bilingual Children (2L1) 282
22. 16. Young L2 and L1 Learners: More Alike than Different 303
23. 17. The Older the Better, or More is More: Language Acquisition in Childhood 324
24. 18. Additive Scope Particles and Anaphoric Linkage in Narrative and Descriptive Texts: A Developmental Study in French L1 and L2 350
25. 19. Discourse Cohesion in Narrative Texts: The Role of Additive Means in Italian L1 and L2 375
26. 20. The Role of Conceptual Development in the Acquisition of the Spatial Domain by L1 and L2 Learners of French, English and Polish 401
27. 21. The Grammaticalisation of Nominals in French L1 and L2: A Comparative Study of Child and Adult Acquisition 420
28. Part 3: Typological Variation and Language Acquisition
29. 22. Typology Meets Second Language Acquisition 443
30. 23. Linguistic Relativity: Another Turn of the Screw 464
31. 24. Paths in L2 Acquisition: The Expression of Temporality in Spatially Oriented Narration 482
32. 25. A Cross-Linguistic Study of Narratives with Special Attention to the Progressive: A Contrast between English, Spanish and Catalan 502
33. 26. Reference to Entities in Fictional Narratives of Russian/French Quasi-Bilinguals 520
34. 27. The Cohesive Function of Word Order in L1 and L2 Italian: How VS Structures Mark Local and Global Coherence in the Discourse of Native Speakers and of Learners 535
35. 28. Macrostructural Principles and the Development of Narrative Competence in L1 German: The Role of Grammar (8–14-Year-Olds) 559
36. 29. Online Sentence Processing in Children and Adults: General and Specifi c Constraints. A Crosslinguistic Study in Four Languages 586
37. 30. A Personal Tribute 613