Jasone Cenoz is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). She co-edited the books Beyond Bilingualism and English in Europe (Multilingual Matters 1998, 2000) and has published in the fields of second/third language acquisition, multilingualism and interlanguage pragmatics.Britta Hufeisen is Director of the Language Resource Center at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, Edmonton/AB, Canada. She has published in the fields of third language acquisition and multilingualism. Another area of interest is the analysis of cultural-specificity in the development of foreign language learner narrative genres.Ulrike Jessner has published on psycholinguistic issues in the fields of first and second language acquisition, multilingualism and gender issues. Recently she has co-edited the book English in Europe and is co-author of A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism. She is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck.

• Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen and Ulrike Jessner: Introduction1 Jasone Cenoz: The Effect of Linguistic Distance, L2 Status and Age on Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition2 Björn Hammarberg: Roles of L1 and L2 in L3 Production and Acquisition3 Gessica De Angelis and Larry Selinker: Interlanguage Transfer and Competing Linguistic Systems in the Multilingual Mind4 Håkan Ringbom: Lexical Transfer in L3 Production5 Jean-Marc Dewaele: Activation or Inhibition? The Interaction of L1, L2 and L3 on the Language Mode Continuum6 Peter Ecke: Lexical Retrieval in a Third Language: Evidence from Errors and Tip-of-the-Tongue States7 Anna Herwig: Plurilingual Lexical Organisation: Evidence from Lexical Processing in L1-L2-L3-L4 Translation8 Martha Gibson, Britta Hufeisen and Gary Libben: Learners of German as an L3 and their Production of German Prepositional Verbs9 Robert J. Fouser: Too Close for Comfort? Sociolinguistic Transfer from Japanese into Korean as an L310 Eric Kellerman: New Uses for Old Language: Cross-linguistic and Cross-gestural Influence in the Narratives of Non-Native SpeakersIndex