The L2 Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology

by Salaberry, M. Rafael; Shirai, Yasuhiro; Salaberry, Rafael; American Association for Applied Linguistics

• ISBN13: 9781588112170
• ISBN10: 1588112179
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Contributors	ix
Abbreviations used in glosses	x
L2 acquisition of tense-aspect morphology	1	(20)
Rafael Salaberry
Yasuhiro Shirai
The first language acquisition of tense and aspect: A review	21	(58)
Richard Weist
The dimensions of pastness	79	(28)
Roger Andersen
Temporal relations in learner varieties: Grammaticalization and discourse construction	107	(22)
Colette Noyau
Analyzing aspect	129	(26)
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig
The development of tense-aspect in English as a second language and the variable influence of inherent aspect	155	(44)
Alex Housen
The aspect hypothesis in naturalistic L2 acquisition: What uninflected and non-target-like verb forms in early interlanguage tell us	199	(22)
Andreas Rohde
How do learners acquire the classical three categories of temporality? Evidence from L2 Italian	221	(28)
Anna Giacalone-Ramat
Lexical aspect in child second language acquisition of temporal morphology: A bidirectional study	249	(36)
Sonia Rocca
Information structure in dialogic future plans: A study of Italian native speakers and Swedish preadvanced and advanced learners of Italian	285	(38)
Eva Wiberg
Reference to past events in dialogue: The acquisition of tense and aspect by advanced learners of French	323	(40)
Maria Kihlstedt
On viewpoint aspect interpretation and its L2 acquisition: A UG perspective	363	(34)
Roumyana Slabakova
Silvina Montrul
Tense and aspect in the selection of Spanish past tense verbal morphology	397	(20)
Rafael Salaberry
The acquisition and use of perfective aspect in Mandarin	417	(38)
Patricia Duff
Duanduan Li
The prototype hypothesis of tense-aspect acquisition in second language	455	(24)
Yasuhiro Shirai
Index of names	479	(4)
Index of subjects	483