The Role of Formal Features in Second Language Acquisition

Contents
Preface
Introduction • Juana M. Liceras, Helmut Zobl, and Helen Goodluck
Part I. Linguistic theory and learnability
	1.1. The role of features in syntactic theory and language variation • Lisa deMena Travis
	1.2. Uninterpretable features and EPP: A minimalist account of language buildup and breakdown • Christer Platzack
	1.3. Feature correlations in nominative case marking in L 1, L2, and native English • Andrew Radford
	1.4. Feature assembly in second language acquisition • Donna Lardiere
Part II. Determiner phrase-related features
	2.1. Feature interpretability in L2 acquisition and SLI: Greek clitics and determiners • Ianthi Maria Tsimpli and Maria Mastropavlou
	2.2. Narrow syntax or interface deficit? Gender agreement in French SLI • Celia Jakubowicz and Leslie Roulet
	2.3. The role of semantic features in the acquisition of English articles by Russian and Korean speakers • Tania Ionin, Heejeong Ko, and Kenneth Wexler
	2.4. Acquisition of the Spanish plural by French Ll speakers: The role of transfer • Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Part III. Inflection phrase and aspectphrase-related features
	Section 1. Finiteness, Agreement, and Tense
		3.1. Some puzzling features of L2 features • Lydia White
		3.2. The semantic effects of verb raising and its consequences in second language grammars • Roger Hawkins, Gabriela Casillas, Hajime Hattori, James Hawthorne, Ritta Husted, Cristobal Lozano, Aya Okamoto, Emma Thomas, and Kazumi Yamada
		3.3. Knowledge of morphology and syntax in early adult L2 French: Evidence for the Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis • Philippe Prevost
		3.4. The verbal functional domain in L2A and L3A: Tense and agreement in Cantonese-English-French interlanguage • Yan-kit Ingrid Leung
	Section 2. Aspect
		3.5. On the role of DP in the acquisition of finiteness in child L2 English • Elena Gavruseva
		3.6. Non-native recognition of iterative and habitual meanings of Spanish preterite and imperfect tenses • Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux, Alejandro Cuza, Monika Majzlanova, and Jeannette Sanchez-Naranjo
		3.7. Aspectual shifts: Grammatical and pragmatic knowledge in L2 acquisition • Roumyana Slabakova and Silvina Montrul
		3.8. Interpretable and uninterpretable features in the acquisition of Spanish past tenses • Lourdes Diaz, Aurora Bel, and Konstantina Bekiou
Part IV. Complementizer phrase-related features
	4.1. Complementizer Phrase features in child Ll and adult L3 acquisition • Suzanne Flynn, Inna Vinnitskaya, and Claire Foley
	4.2. On CP positions in L2 Spanish • Elena Valenzuela
Author Index
Subject Index