Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Typology and language acquisition: the case of relative clauses -- Relative clauses in early bilingual development: Transfer and universals -- Learner varieties and language types. The case of indefinite pronouns in non-native Italian -- Adnominal possession: combining typological and second language perspectives -- Gerunds as optional categories in second language learning -- Iconicity and finiteness in the development of early grammar in French as L2 and in Frenchbased Creoles -- Lexicalisation of aspectual structures in English and Japanese -- Using nouns for reference maintenance: A seeming contradiction in L2 discourse -- Crosslinguistic comparison and second language acquisition: an approach to Topic and Leftdetachment constructions from the perspective of spoken language -- Typology and information organisation: perspective taking and Language-specific effects in the construal of events -- Typological comparison and interlanguage phonology: maps or gaps between typology and language learning of sound systems? -- Index of subjects -- Index of authors -- List of contributors