Cover -- Preface -- Vorwort -- ΠΕΡΙΛΗΨΗ -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction: L2 acquisition theories -- 1.2 Background to the study -- 1.3 Research questions -- 1.4 Contribution of the dissertation -- 1.5 Dissertation organisation -- Chapter 2: Second Language Acquisition Theories -- 2.1 Internal/external focus on SLA -- 2.2 Age factor and critical period in L2 acquisition -- 2.3 External and internal factors in L2 acquisition -- 2.4 L1/L2 and adult/child processing -- 2.5 L1/L2 and cross-linguistic transfer -- 2.6 L2 acquisition vs. second dialect acquisition -- 2.7 The role of UG in L2 acquisition -- 2.7.1 Access to UG in L1 and L2 -- 2.7.2 Feature interpretability -- 2.7.3 Move F. Movement: covert/overt. Features: strong/weak -- 2.7.4 Agree by feature matching -- 2.7.5 Agree by feature sharing -- 2.7.6 Functional categories and inflectional morphology in L2 -- Chapter 3: Methodology -- 3.1 Type of research -- 3.2 Data collection, validity and reliability of research -- 3.3 L2 corpus -- 3.4 Sampling -- 3.5 Ethical considerations/procedure -- 3.6 Participants -- 3.7 Materials/Procedure -- 3.7.1 Questionnaire -- 3.7.2 Interviews -- 3.7.3 Observation -- 3.7.4 Oral data elicitation -- 3.8 Data transcription, coding and analysis -- Chapter 4: L2 Greek Clitic Acquisition -- 4.1 Clitics cross-linguistically -- 4.2 Greek clitics -- 4.2.1 CG vs. SMG -- 4.2.2 CG vs. SMG clitics -- 4.2.3 Clitic omission cross-linguistically -- 4.2.4 L1 acquisition of Greek clitics -- 4.2.5 L2 acquisition of Greek clitics and determiners -- 4.3 Predictions: L1 Russian speakers acquire L2 Greek clitics -- 4.4 Object clitic acquisition study -- 4.4.1 Methodology -- 4.4.2 Object clitic omission/substitution -- 4.4.3 Syntactic environments of object clitics.

4.4.4 Person feature of object clitics -- 4.4.5 3rd person object clitics and gender feature -- 4.4.6 Overt object clitics and distance/referentiality -- 4.4.7 Comparison of omitted and overt object clitics -- 4.5 Extralinguistic variables and clitic production -- 4.5.1 Age factor and object clitic production -- 4.5.2 LoR factor and object clitic production -- 4.5.3 AoO factor and object clitic production -- 4.5.4 Country of origin and object clitic production -- 4.5.5 Level of education and object clitic production -- 4.5.6 Professional level and object clitic production -- 4.5.7 Learning of Greek and object clitic production -- 4.5.8 MLU word and object clitic production -- 4.5.9 Independent proficiency rating and object clitic production -- 4.6 Summary -- Chapter 5: Acquisition of L2 Greek Determiners -- 5.1 Determiners cross-linguistically -- 5.2 Acquisition of Determiners -- 5.2.1 Studies on L2 acquisition of determiners cross-linguistically -- 5.3 Greek determiners -- 5.3.1 L2 acquisition of Greek determiners -- 5.4 Results of the determiner acquisition study -- 5.4.1 Methodology -- 5.5 Indefinite determiners -- 5.5.1 Overt indefinite determiners -- 5.5.2 Omission of indefinite determiners -- 5.5.3 Comparison of omitted and omitted indefinite determiners -- 5.6 Definite determiners -- 5.6.1 Overt definite determiners -- 5.6.2 Omitted definite determiners -- 5.6.3 Comparison of the overt and omitted definite determiners -- 5.7 Comparison of indefinite and definite determiners -- 5.8 Extralinguistic variables and determiner production -- 5.8.1 Age factor and production of indefinite/definite determiners -- 5.8.2 LoR factor and production of definite/indefinite determiners -- 5.8.3 AoO factor and production of definite/indefinite determiners -- 5.8.4 Country of origin factor and production of definite/indefinite determiners.

5.8.5 Level of education and production of definite/indefinite determiners -- 5.8.6 Profession and production of definite/indefinite determiners -- 5.8.7 Learning of Greek and production of definite/indefinite determiners -- 5.8.8 MLU word and production of definite/indefinite determiners -- 5.8.9 Independent proficiency rating and object clitic production -- 5.9 Summary -- Chapter 6: Acquisition of L2 Greek agreement -- 6.1 Morphological agreement -- 6.1.1 Agree/L2 studies on L2 agreement acquisition -- 6.1.2 Greek/Russian morphological agreement -- 6.1.3 L2 Greek agreement acquisition -- 6.2 Gender, number and person features and morphological agreement -- 6.2.1 L2 studies on the acquisition of gender assignment and gender agreement -- 6.2.2 Greek gender -- 6.2.3 Studies on L2 Greek gender acquisition -- 6.2.4 Russian gender -- 6.3 Case/L2 studies on case acquisition -- 6.3.1 Greek vs. Russian case, L2 Greek acquisition issues -- 6.4 Results of the L2 Greek morphological agreement study -- 6.4.1 Methodology -- 6.4.2 Agreement mismatches within DP domain -- 6.4.3 Possessive clitic agreement mismatches -- 6.4.4 Agreement mismatches on object clitics -- 6.4.5 Verbal domain subject-verb agreement errors -- 6.4.6 Subject+adjective predicate agreement errors -- 6.4.7 Agreement errors overall -- 6.5 Extralinguistic factors and agreement errors -- 6.5.1 Age factor and agreement errors -- 6.5.2 LoR factor and agreement errors -- 6.5.3 AoO factor and agreement errors -- 6.5.4 Country of origin and agreement errors -- 6.5.5 Level of education and agreement errors -- 6.5.6 Profession and agreement errors -- 6.5.7 Greek language learning and agreement errors -- 6.5.8 MLU and agreement errors -- 6.5.9 Independent proficiency rating and object clitic production -- 6.6 Summary -- Chapter 7: Discussion -- Chapter 8: Conclusions -- Appendices -- Appendix 1.

Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 4 -- References.