Jason Rothman is Professor of Linguistics at Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet and Universidad Nebrija in Madrid, Spain. Jorge González Alonso is a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics at Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet. Eloi Puig-Mayenco recently completed his Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics at the University of Reading.

'This timely volume problematizes the notion of morphosyntactic transfer at the initial stages of third language acquisition, a phenomenon which has undoubtedly driven the surge in third language research that we have witnessed over the last fifteen years. Through their in-depth treatment of existing proposals of initial transfer and critical synthesis of the data available to date, the authors inject insight into theory building that both provides future directions for this young field and transcends third language acquisition. As a result, this volume will no doubt serve as a seminal resource in the fields of multilingualism and language acquisition and processing in general.' Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro, University of Illinois, Chicago

• 1. Setting the context; 2. Theoretical approaches to sequential multilingualism; 3. Multilingual lexis (acquisition and processing) and phonology; 4. Transfer in multilingual morphosyntax; 5. A review of published work; 6. Moving on and going forward in L3/Ln acquisition.