Focus constructions and language transfer / Terence Odlin -- Argument realisation and information packaging in 'tough'-movement constructions : a learner-corpus-based investigation / Marcus Callies -- L1 syntactic preferences of Polish adolescents in bilingual and monolingual education programmes / Anna Ewert -- MOGUL and crosslinguistic influence / Mike Sharwood-Smith and John Truscott -- Syntactic processing in multilingual performance (a case study) / Danuta Gabrýs-Barker -- The morphology '-me' in modern Greek as L2 : how German and Russian L2 learners interpret verbal consturctions / Irini Kassotaki -- Unaccusativity marks / Konrad Szcześniak -- To move or not to move : acquisition of L2 English syntactic movement parameter / Cem Can, Abdurrahman Kilimci and Esra Altunkol -- Last to acquire : on the relation of concession in interpreting / Andrzej Łyda -- Pragmatic (in)competence in EFL writing / Rüdiger Zimmermann -- The role of explicit rule presentation in teaching English articles to Polish learners / Angieszka Król-Markefka -- The effect of corrective feedback on the acquisition of the English third person '-s' ending / Mirosław Pawlak -- The acquisition of German syntax by Polish learners in classroom conditions / Barbara Sadownik -- Introducing language interface in pedagogical grammar / Michał B. Paradowski -- Towards reflecting the dynamic nature of grammar in foreign language instruction : expectations and current pedagogic practice / Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak
Summary
Presents a selection of second language acquisition studies at the level of morphosyntax. This work looks at different aspects of morphosyntactic development of bilingual language learners/users such as language transfer, syntactic processing, morphology and the pragmatics of language, among others