This volume brings together new research from different theoretical paradigms
addressing the acquisition of French as a second language. It focuses on the
acquisition of French in combination with English, German, Russian or Spanish
and enriches our understanding of the particularities of French and the role of
language combinations in the acquisition process. The chapters examine the
development of different grammatical aspects (word order phenomena, adjective
placement, dislocation and cleft constructions, wh-questions, DP phenomena,
argument admissions and constructions with particular word groups) and use
various methodologies (such as elicitation tasks, longitudinal studies and
parsing experiments) to further add to our understanding of how French is
acquired in different contexts.