Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Review of the literature (1). Theoretical approaches to L2 word order acquisition research -- Chapter Three: Review of the literature (2). Chinese L2 word order acquisition, word order errors and word order principles -- Chapter Four: Research methodology -- Chapter Five: The Study -- Chapter Six: A principle-based taxonomy of Chinese L2 word order errors -- Chapter Seven: Chinese word order errors: frequency of occurrence -- Chapter Eight: Conclusion -- Backmatter