Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Finite Verb Placement in French Language Change and in Bilingual German-French Acquisition -- 2. Wh-fronting and Wh-in-situ in the Acquisition of French: Really Variants? -- 3. On the Processing of Subject Clefts in English-French Interlanguage: Parsing to Learn and the Subject Relativizer qui -- 4. Verbal Transitivity Development in First Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Russian, French and English -- 5. Static and Dynamic Location in French and German Child Language -- 6. Can L2 Learners Learn New Ways to Conceptualize Events? A New Approach to Restructuring in Motion Event Construal -- 7. A Bidirectional Study: Is There Any Role for Transfer in Adjective Placement? -- 8. Parameters, Processing and Feature Reassembly in the L2 French Determiner Phrase -- 9. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index