Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition : : A Tribute to Clive Perdue / / ed. by Marzena Watorek, Sandra Benazzo, Maya Hickmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aleksandrova, Tatiana,; Andorno, Cecilia,; Bartning, Inge,; Becker, Angelika,; Benazzo, Sandra,; Bernini, Giuliano,; Carroll, Mary,; Demagny, Annie-Claude,; Dietrich, Rainer,; Dimroth, Christine,; Eichler, Nadine,; Fusellier-Souza, Ivani,; Giuliano, Patrizia,; Haberzettl, Stefanie,; Halm, Ute,; Hendriks, Henriëtte,; Kail, Michèle,; Kao, Chung Shan,; Klein, Wolfgang,; Lemke, Vytautas,; Lenart, Ewa,; Lyons, John,; Muñoz, Carmen,; Müller, Natascha,; Perdue, Clive,; Ramat, Anna Giacalone,; Rast, Rebekah,; Schimke, Sarah,; Schlyter, Suzanne,; Singleton, David,; Slobin, Dan I.,; Sommer, Werner,; Stutterheim, Christiane von,; Sun, Jili,; Thomas, Anita,; Tracy, Rosemarie,; Trévisiol, Pascale,; Turco, Giuseppina,; Verhagen, Josje,; Vraciu, Eleonora Alexandra,; Watorek, Marzena,
• HerausgeberIn: Benazzo, Sandra,; Hickmann, Maya,; Watorek, Marzena,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Second Language Acquisition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (664 p.)

This volume aims to provide a broad view of second language acquisition within a comparative perspective that addresses results concerning adult and child learners across a variety of source and target languages. It brings together contributions at the forefront of language acquisition research that...

Table of Contents

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