Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Grammar of Noun Combination -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Noun combination in English: a variable target -- 1.3 Summary -- 2 Noun Cominbination and Language Typology in First and Second Language Acquisition - A Review of the Literature -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 Noun combination in first language acquisition -- 2.2 Noun combination in second language acquisition -- 2.3 Summary -- 3 The Typological Intersection and the Empirical Study of Noun Combination in Interlanguage -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 The contrastive analysis of noun combination -- 3.2 Studying noun combination in interlanguage -- 3.3 Gathering the evidence -- 3.4 Summary -- 4 Testing for the Grammar of Noun Combination in Interlanguage -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 Evidence for typology effects -- 4.2 Method -- 4.3 Results -- 4.4 Hypotheses revisited -- 4.5 Summary -- 5 Analysis and Discussion -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 The typological intersections -- 5.2 Conceptualizing language contact -- 5.3 Noun combination across languages -- 5.4 Summary -- References -- Appendix 1: Grammaticality judgment task -- Appendix 2: Sample transcripts.