Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marzena Watorek is Professor in Linguistics at the University Paris 8. Her research interests include first and second language acquisition, particularly discourse production, initial processing of the input by adult learners, and the interface between language acquisition and teaching.

Sandra Benazzo is Associate Professor in Linguistics and French as a Second Language at the University Lille 3. Her research mainly concerns L2 acquisition in the domain of temporality, information structure, discourse organization and the comparison with L1 acquisition.

Maya Hickmann is Research Director in the Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage (CNRS and Université Paris 8). Her research mainly focuses on the role of structural vs. functional and universal vs. language-specific determinants in first and second language acquisition.

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Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition

A Tribute to Clive Perdue

Multilingual Matters

Contents

Contributors, ix, 
Introduction: New Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Language [Acquisition – Clive Perdue's Legacy Marzena Watorek, Sandra Benazzo and Maya Hickmann, 1, 
Part 1: Second Language Acquisition: From Initial to Final Stages, 
1 A Way to Look at Second Language Acquisition Wolfgang Klein, 23, 
2 L2 Input and the L2 Initial State: The Writings of Clive Perdue Rebekah Rast, 37, 
3 Finiteness and the Acquisition of Negation Angelika Becker, 54, 
4 The Different Role of Additive and Negative Particles in the Development of Finiteness in Early Adult L2 German and L2 Dutch Sarah Schimke, Josje Verhagen and Giuseppina Turco, 73, 
5 Lexical Categories in the Target Language and the Lexical Categorisation of Learners: The Word Class of Adverbs Giuliano Bernini, 92, 
6 Is it Necessary for Chinese Mandarin Speakers to Mark Time? Reflections About the Use of Temporal Adverbs with Respect to Verbal Morphology Jili Sun, 108, 
7 The Development of Reference to Time and Space in French L3: Evidence from Narratives Pascale Trevisiol, 133, 
8 Verbal Morphology in Advanced Varieties of English L2: Aspect or Discourse Hypothesis? Eleonora Alexandra Vraciu, 153, 
9 High-Level Proficiency in Second Language Use: Morphosyntax and Discourse Inge Bartning, 170, 
10 Ultimate Attainment and the Critical Period Hypothesis: Some Thorny Issues David Singleton, 188, 
11 Language Origins, Learner Varieties and Creating Language Anew: How Acquisitional Studies Can Contribute to Language Evolution Research Sandra Benazzo, 204, 
12 Multiple Perspectives on the Emergence and Development of Human Language: B. Comrie, C. Perdue and D. Slobin Ivani Fusellier-Souza, 223, 
Part 2: L1 and L2 Acquisition: Learner Type Perspective, 
13 Child Language Study and Adult Language Acquisition: Twenty Years Later Dan I. Slobin, 245, 
14 The Derivation of Mixed DPs: Mixing of Functional Categories in Bilingual Children and in Second Language Learners Nadine Eichler and Natascha Müller, 263, 
15 L1 or L2 Acquisition? Finiteness in Child Second Language Learners (cL2), Compared to Adult L2 Learners (aL2) and Young Bilingual Children (2L1) Suzanne Schlyter and Anita Thomas, 282, 
16 Young L2 and L1 Learners: More Alike than Different Rosemarie Tracy and Vytautas Lemke, 303, 
17 The Older the Better, or More is More: Language Acquisition in Childhood Christine Dimroth and Stefanie Haberzettl, 324, 
18 Additive Scope Particles and Anaphoric Linkage in Narrative and Descriptive Texts: A Developmental Study in French L1 and L2 Sandra Benazzo, Clive Perdue and Marzena Watorek, 350, 
19 Discourse Cohesion in Narrative Texts: The Role of Additive Means in Italian L1 and L2 Patrizia Giuliano, 375, 
20 The Role of Conceptual Development in the Acquisition of the Spatial Domain by L1 and L2 Learners of French, English and Polish Henriëtte Hendriks and Marzena Watorek, 401, 
21 The Grammaticalisation of Nominals in French L1 and L2: A Comparative Study of Child and Adult Acquisition Ewa Lenart, 420, 
Part 3: Typological Variation and Language Acquisition, 
22 Typology Meets Second Language Acquisition Anna Giacalone Ramat, 443, 
23 Linguistic Relativity: Another Turn of the Screw Rainer Dietrich, Chung Shan Kao and Werner Sommer, 464, 
24 Paths in L2 Acquisition: The Expression of Temporality in Spatially Oriented Narration Annie-Claude Demagny, 482, 
25 A Cross-Linguistic Study of Narratives with Special Attention to the Progressive: A Contrast between English, Spanish and Catalan Carmen Muñoz, 505, 
26 Reference to Entities in Fictional Narratives of Russian/French Quasi-Bilinguals Tatiana Aleksandrova, 520, 
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 Cecilia Andorno, 535, 
28 Macrostructural Principles and the Development of Narrative Competence in L1 German: The Role of Grammar (8-14-Year-Olds) Christiane von Stutterheim, Ute Halm and Mary Carroll, 559, 
29 Online Sentence Processing in Children and Adults: General and Specific Constraints. A Crosslinguistic Study in Four Languages Michèle Kail, 586, 
30 A Personal Tribute Sir John Lyons, 613,