Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part 1 Language Contact and Language Transfer Revisited -- Chapter 1 On the Ambiguity of the Notion 'Transfer' -- Chapter 2 Language Transfer in Language Learning and Language Contact -- Chapter 3 Could a Contrastive Analysis Ever be Complete? -- Chapter 4 The Importance of Different Types of Similarity in Transfer Studies -- Chapter 5 Language Contact vs. Foreign and Second Language Acquisition -- Part 2 Language Contact Observed -- Chapter 6 Genre: Language Contact and Culture Transfer -- Chapter 7 Is Cross-linguistic Influence a Factor in Advanced EFL Learners' Use of Collocations? -- Chapter 8 International Terms and Profile Transfer: On Discussion -- Chapter 9 The Influence of English on Polish Drug-related Slang -- Part 3 Lexical Transfer in Language Processing -- Chapter 10 Why Money Can't Buy You Anything in German: A Functional-Typological Approach to the Mapping of Semantic Roles to Syntactic Functions in SLA -- Chapter 11 Lexical Transfer: Interlexical or Intralexical? -- Chapter 12 The Interaction of Languages in the Lexical Search of Multilingual Language Users -- Chapter 13 Assessing L2 Lexical Development in Early L2 Learning: A Case Study -- Chapter 14 Code-mixing in Early L2 Lexical Acquisition -- Part 4 Lexical Transfer in Fixed Expressions -- Chapter 15 Metaphorical Transferability -- Chapter 16 On the Use of Translation in Studies of Language Contact -- Chapter 17 On Building Castles on the Sand, or Exploring the Issue of Transfer in the Interpretation and Production of L2 Fixed Expressions -- Chapter 18 'Don't Lose Your Head' or How Polish Learners of English Cope with L2 Idiomatic Expressions -- Chapter 19 Phrasal Verb Idioms and the Normative Concept of the Interlanguage Hypothesis.