Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Content of the volume -- 1. Finiteness and scope relations -- 2. Anaphoric relations -- References -- Finiteness and scope relations -- Development of verb morphology and finiteness in children and adults acquiring French -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Finiteness, functional categories and morphology -- 1.2. Varying acquisition criteria -- 1.3. Verb morphology, and syntactic evidence for IP in French -- 2. Learners studied -- 3. First language acquisition: The bilingual children -- 3.1. The first stage - no verb morphemes, no signs of instantiations of INFL -- 3.2. The second stage - verb morphology and syntax appear: INFL is instantiated -- 3.3. Later development - subordination etc.: COMP is instantiated -- 3.4. Summary of the development in (2)L1 -- 4. Adult second language acquisition: Early stages -- 4.1. Finiteness in early stages according to restrictive and non-restrictive criteria -- 4.2. General view of the L2 learners' early development -- 5. Late development of verb morphology in the L2 learners -- 6. Conclusions and discussion -- Notes -- References -- "Tinkering'' with chunks -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The learners and the data base -- 3. On functionalist interpretations -- 3.1. Ist as a marker of imperfective aspect? -- 3.2. Ist as a marker of perfect aspect? -- 4. "Tinkering'' with chunks -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Finiteness in Germanic languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The conceptual structure: topic, predicate and linking -- 2.1. Topic: The anchor point -- 2.2. Predicate: The (expression of the) state of affairs -- 2.3. Linking: The role of the validation device -- 3. Acquisitional stages -- 3.1. The Holistic Stage: Pragmatic validation.

3.2. The Conceptual Ordering Stage: Lexical validation -- 3.3. Finite Linking Stage: Grammatical validation -- 3.4. Summary of the stages of development -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- On the similarities of L1 and L2 acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mechanisms of temporal anchoring -- 2.1. Target language properties -- 2.2. Learner language properties - general options -- 2.3. Characteristics of L2 -- 2.4. Characteristics of L1 -- 3. Comparison of L1 and L2 -- 4. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Negation and relational predicates in French and English as second languages -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous research -- 3. Theoretical framework and objectives -- 4. The informants -- 5. From Spanish to French -- 5.1. Negation in Spanish -- 5.2. Negation in French -- 5.3. What needs to be acquired? -- 5.4. Informants' learner varieties -- 6. From Italian to English -- 6.1. Negation in Italian -- 6.2. Negation in English -- 6.3. What needs to be acquired? -- 6.4. Informants' learner varieties -- 7. A common acquisitional path -- 8. Negation and finiteness -- But why auxiliaries? -- Symbols and terminology -- Notes -- References -- The copula in learner Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The copula: Some typological considerations -- 3. The development of the copula in Markos -- 4. Copula and verb morphology -- 4.1. Markos's longitudinal data -- 4.2. Other learners -- 5. Negation -- 6. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- The interaction between the development of verb morphology and the acquisition of temporal adverbs of contrast -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Temporal adverbs of contrast and other scopal items -- 3. Learners and their development -- 4. Overview on the repertoire of the L2 scopal items -- 5. Learners' use of TACs in discourse -- 5.1. Iterative items at the basic variety.

5.2. Continuative and resultative items in postbasic varieties -- 5.3. Comparison of the acquisitional paths and explanatory hypotheses -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Merging scope particles -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Semantics and pragmatics of aussi/ook -- 3. The syntax of aussi/ook -- 3.1. French -- 3.2. Dutch -- 4. The acquisition of aussi/ook -- 4.1. Dutch -- 4.2. French -- 5. Anouk: Aussi and ook in bilingual acquisition -- 5.1. Aussi in Anouk's French -- 5.2. Ook in Anouk's Dutch -- 5.3. Comparison with monolingual children -- 6. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Creole prototypes as basic varieties and inflectional morphology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Inflectional morphology in French and its basic varieties -- 3. The long/short opposition in French-related Creoles -- 3.1. Louisianais -- 3.2. Morisyen -- 4. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Anaphoric relations -- Information structure in narratives and the role of grammaticised knowledge -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Information structure in descriptions -- 2. Information structure in narratives -- 2.1. Information selection - deciding ``what to say'' -- 2.2. Information status at clause level -- 2.3. Introduction of inanimate entities and linkage (causal, temporal relations) -- 3. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Acquiring the linkage between syntactic, semantic and informational roles in narratives by Spanish learners of German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Subject, topic and agent -- 3. Data -- 4. German and Spanish -- 5. L1 Spanish - L2 German -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Gestures, referents, and anaphoric linkage in learner varieties -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An introduction to gestures and gestural cohesion -- 3. Data background -- 4. Gestural anaphoric linkage in L1 -- 5. Gestural anaphoric linkage in L2.

6. Gestural anaphoric linkage - Is it communicatively motivated? -- 7. Is it a reflection of learners' speech planning? -- 8. Final remarks -- Notes -- References -- The development of anaphoric means to refer to space and entities in the acquisition of French by Polish learners -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Informants and data -- 3. The results -- 3.1. Development of spatial concepts and anaphoric linkage -- 3.2. Locative expressions -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- The series STUDIES IN BILINGUALISM (SiBil).