Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics

Tania Ionin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is also Associate Editor of Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics.Silvina Montrul is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is also Co-Editor of Second Language Research.Roumyana Slabakova is Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. She is also Co-Editor of Second Language Research.

"At long last, here is the much-needed authoritative guide for students and researchers interested in the second language acquisition of grammar and meaning from a linguistic perspective. Its interdisciplinary scope and the comprehensive coverage of acquisition studies across various bilingual populations are truly impressive. It will have pride of place on my bookshelf for many years to come."Professor Holger Hopp, University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology, Germany

• Chapter 1 Introduction Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul and Roumyana SlabakovaPart I: The lexiconChapter 2 Lexicosemantic development Nan Jiang and Dilin LiuChapter 3 Transfer of reference: Metaphor and metonymy Beatriz Martín Gascón and Antonio Barcelona Chapter 4 Thinking for speaking Emanuel Bylund and Panos AthanasopoulosChapter 5 The bilingual mental lexicon Judith F. KrollPart II: Argument structureChapter 6 The causative/inchoative alternation Eve Zyzik and Josefina BittarChapter 7 Intransitive verbs Makiko HirakawaChapter 8 Psych verbs Dongdong ChenChapter 9 The dative and locative alternations Alan JuffsChapter 10 The passive Noelia Sánchez-WalkerPart III: Morphosyntax and semantics of the nominal domainChapter 11 Plural marking and the semantics of plurality Sea Hee Choi and Tania IoninChapter 12 Gender and number agreement Vicky ChondrogianniChapter 13 Adjective placement Tiffany JudyChapter 14 Articles: (In)definiteness Jacee ChoChapter 15 Articles: Genericity Tanja Kupisch and Neal SnapeChapter 16 The morphosyntax of case Ayşe GürelChapter 17 Semantically based case Silvina MontrulPart IV: Morphosyntax and semantics of the verbal domainChapter 18 Finiteness and negation Christine DimrothChapter 19 Tense and temporality Yasuhiro ShiraiChapter 20 Lexical aspect M. Rafael Salaberry and Llorenç Comajoan-ColoméChapter 21 Viewpoint aspect María J. Arche and Laura DomínguezChapter 22 Future tense and future expressions Kathleen Bardovi-HarligChapter 23 Mood and modality Amber DudleyChapter 24 Copular clauses Silvia Perpiñán and Rafael MarínPart V: Clause-level syntaxChapter 25 Verb movement Lydia WhiteChapter 26 Learning and unlearning Verb Second word order Ute Bohnacker and Marit WestergaardChapter 27 Interrogatives Gita Martohardjono and Pamela FranciottiChapter 28 Non-canonical word orders Rex A. SprouseChapter 29 Relative clauses David StringerChapter 30 Quantifier scope Heather MarsdenChapter 31 Weak pronouns: Clitics and clitic placement Juana M. LicerasChapter 32 Ellipsis Nigel DuffieldChapter 33 Binding and co-reference: Pronouns Eun Hee KimChapter 34 Binding and co-reference: Reflexives Chung-yu ChenPart VI: InterfacesChapter 35 Null and overt pronouns Fernando Martín-Villena, Khadij Gharibi and Jason RothmanChapter 36 Information structure: Topic and focus Tania LealChapter 37 Scalar implicatures Shuo FengChapter 38 The syntax-phonology interface Heather Goad and Lydia WhiteChapter 39 Semantics and cognition: Spatiotemporal metaphors and time perception in L2 users Panos Athanasopoulos and Emanuel BylundAuthor IndexSubject Index