Rafael Salaberry is Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Texas-Austin, USA

"This ambitious volume systematically and thoroughly examines the theoretical and applied issues that the study of Spanish past tense raises. It does so by questioning and refining well-known (but not always well-understood) theoretical constructs upon which second language acquisition studies are based." - Professor Dalila Ayoun, University of Arizona, USA

• Contents Foreword, Dalila Ayoun (University of Arizona, USA) Author's Foreword 1. Learning Spanish Past Tense Aspect 2. Delimiting Lexical and Grammatical Aspect 3. Hypotheses about the L2 Development of Tense-Aspect 4. A Lexico-Discursive Definition of Tense-Aspect 5. Final Thoughts

Rafael Salaberry is Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Texas-Austin, USA

"This ambitious volume systematically and thoroughly examines the theoretical and applied issues that the study of Spanish past tense raises. It does so by questioning and refining well-known (but not always well-understood) theoretical constructs upon which second language acquisition studies are based." - Professor Dalila Ayoun, University of Arizona, USA

• Contents Foreword, Dalila Ayoun (University of Arizona, USA) Author's Foreword 1. Learning Spanish Past Tense Aspect 2. Delimiting Lexical and Grammatical Aspect 3. Hypotheses about the L2 Development of Tense-Aspect 4. A Lexico-Discursive Definition of Tense-Aspect 5. Final Thoughts

Rafael Salaberry is Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Texas-Austin, USA

"This ambitious volume systematically and thoroughly examines the theoretical and applied issues that the study of Spanish past tense raises. It does so by questioning and refining well-known (but not always well-understood) theoretical constructs upon which second language acquisition studies are based." - Professor Dalila Ayoun, University of Arizona, USA

• Contents Foreword, Dalila Ayoun (University of Arizona, USA) Author's Foreword 1. Learning Spanish Past Tense Aspect 2. Delimiting Lexical and Grammatical Aspect 3. Hypotheses about the L2 Development of Tense-Aspect 4. A Lexico-Discursive Definition of Tense-Aspect 5. Final Thoughts