Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: A Tribute to Clive Perdue

 Content: Introduction-Marzena Watorek, Sandra Benazzo & Maya Hickmann: New comparative perspectives in the study of language acquisition - Clive Perdue's legacyPart I. Second Language Acquisition: from initial to final stages 1. Wolfgang Klein: From the learner's point of view 2. Rebekah Rast: l 2 input and the l 2 initial state: The writings of Clive Perdue 3. Angelika Becker: Finiteness and the acquisition of negation 4. Sara Schimke, Joshe Verhagen & Giusy Turco: The different role of additive and negative particles in the development of finiteness in early adult l 2 German and l 2 Dutch 5. Giuliano Bernini: Lexical Categories in the Target Language and the Lexical Categorisation of Learners: the Word Class of Adverbs 6. Jili Sun: Is it necessary for Chinese learners to mark time? Reflexions about the use of temporal adverbs with respect to verbal morphology relations 7. Pascale Trevisiol: The development of reference to time and space in l 3 French: evidence from narratives 8. Alexandra Vraciu: Accounting for verbal morphology in advanced varieties of English l 2: aspect or discourse? 9. Inge Bartning: High-level proficiency in second language use: the case of French 10. David Singleton: Ultimate attainment and the CPH: some thorny issues 11. Sandra Benazzo: Learner varieties and creating language anew: How acquisitional studies can contribute to language evolution research 12. Ivani Fusellier: Multiple perspectives on the emergence and development of human language: B. Comrie, C.Perdue and D. SlobinPart II. l 1 and l 2 acquisition: learner type perspective 13. Dan Slobin: Child anguage study and adult language acquisition: Twenty years later 14. Natasha Muller & Nadine Eichler: Mixing of functional categories in bilingual children and in second language learners. 15. Suzanne Schlyter & Anita Thomas: l 1 or l 2 acquisition? Finiteness in child second language learners (chl 2), compared to adult l 2 learners (adl 2) and young bilingual children (2l 1) 16. Rosmary Tracy & Vytautas Lemke: Young l 2 and l 1 learners: more alike than different 17. Christine Dimroth & Stefanie Haberzettl: The Older the Better, or More is More: Language Acquisition in Childhood 18. Sandra Benazzo, Clive Perdue, Marzena Watorek: Additive scope particles and anaphoric linkage in narrative and descriptive texts: a developmental study in French l 1 & L 2. 19. Patrizia Giuliano: Discourse cohesion in narrative texts: the role of additive particles in Italian l 1 and l 2 20. Henrette Hendriks & Marzena Watorek: The role of conceptual development in the acquisition of the spatial domain by l 1 and l 2 learners of French, English and Polish 21. Ewa Lenart: The Grammaticalisation of Nominals in French l 1 and l 2: A Comparative Study of Child and Adult AcquisitionPart III. Typological variation and language acquisition 22. Anna Giacalone-Ramat: Typology Meets Second Language Acquisition 23. Rainer Dietrich, Chung Shan Kao & Werner Sommer: Linguistic Relativity...Another Turn to the Screw 24. Annie-Claude Demagny: Path in l 2 Acquisition: The expression of Temporality in Spatially oriented Narratives 25. Carmen Munoz: A Cross-linguistic Study of Narratives with Special Attention to the Progressive: A Contrast between English, Spanish and Catalan 26. Tatiana Aleksandrova: Reference to Entities in Fictional Narratives of Russian/French Quasi-Bilinguals 27. Cecilia Andorno: The cohesive function of word order in l 1 and l 2 Italian: How V-S structures mark local and global coherence in the discourse of native speakers and of learners 28. Christiane Von Stutterheim, Ute Halm & Mary Carroll: Macrostructural principles and the development of narrative competence in l 1 German: the role of grammar in 8-14 year olds 29. Michele Kail: On-line sentence processing in children and adults: general and specific constraints: A crosslinguistic study in four languagesClosure-Sir John Lyons: A personal tribute