Lydia White is Professor of Linguistics at McGill University, Montréal and Chair of the Linguistics Department. She is internationally known as a leading expert on second language acquisition. She is the author of Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition (John Benjamins, 1989) and publishes regularly in major international journals on language acquisition.

"It is a clear presentation of a set of current positions on the relation among Universal Grammar (UG), that of the acquirer/learner's L1, and the process and limits of the acquisition/learning of the L2." Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Kathleen Connors, Univerité de Montréal

• 1. Universal grammar and language acquisition; 2. Principles of Universal Grammar in L2 acquisition; 3. The initial state; 4. Grammars beyond the initial state: parameters and functional categories; 5. The transition problem, triggering and input; 6. Morphological variability and the morphology/syntax interface; 7. Argument structure; 8. Ultimate attainment: the nature of the steady state.

Lydia White is Professor of Linguistics at McGill University, Montréal and Chair of the Linguistics Department. She is internationally known as a leading expert on second language acquisition. She is the author of Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition (John Benjamins, 1989) and publishes regularly in major international journals on language acquisition.

"It is a clear presentation of a set of current positions on the relation among Universal Grammar (UG), that of the acquirer/learner's L1, and the process and limits of the acquisition/learning of the L2." Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Kathleen Connors, Univerité de Montréal

• 1. Universal grammar and language acquisition; 2. Principles of Universal Grammar in L2 acquisition; 3. The initial state; 4. Grammars beyond the initial state: parameters and functional categories; 5. The transition problem, triggering and input; 6. Morphological variability and the morphology/syntax interface; 7. Argument structure; 8. Ultimate attainment: the nature of the steady state.

Lydia White is Professor of Linguistics at McGill University, Montréal and Chair of the Linguistics Department. She is internationally known as a leading expert on second language acquisition. She is the author of Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition (John Benjamins, 1989) and publishes regularly in major international journals on language acquisition.

"It is a clear presentation of a set of current positions on the relation among Universal Grammar (UG), that of the acquirer/learner's L1, and the process and limits of the acquisition/learning of the L2." Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Kathleen Connors, Univerité de Montréal

• 1. Universal grammar and language acquisition; 2. Principles of Universal Grammar in L2 acquisition; 3. The initial state; 4. Grammars beyond the initial state: parameters and functional categories; 5. The transition problem, triggering and input; 6. Morphological variability and the morphology/syntax interface; 7. Argument structure; 8. Ultimate attainment: the nature of the steady state.