i-iv -- Contents -- The Structure of Learner Varieties: Introduction to the volume -- Part I: Referential movement -- Reference to persons and objects in the function of subject in Learner Varieties -- Reference to person in learner discourse -- Structuring space in discourse: A comparison of Chinese, English, French and German LI and English, French and German L2 acquisition -- Two dimensions of the representation of complex event structures: granularity and condensation. Towards a typology of textual production in LI and L2 -- Cross-linguistic analysis of temporal perspectives in text production -- Determinants in first and second language acquisition: person, space, and time in discourse across languages -- Part II: Scope -- The semantic knowledge base for the acquisition of negation and the acquisition of finiteness -- The acquisition of negation in Italian L2 -- The acquisition of negation in French L2. An analysis of Moroccan Arabic and Spanish "learner varieties" -- Additive and Restrictive Particles in Italian as a Second Language. Embedding in the verbal utterance structure -- Additive Scope Particles in Advanced Learner and Native Speaker Discourse -- Reading from outside: Acquisitional patterns in a cross-linguistic approach -- Index