Tense and aspect in Romance languages : theoretical and applied perspectives

1. Acknowledgements 2. About the contributors 3. The development of L2 tense-aspect in the Romance languages (by Salaberry, M. Rafael) 4. The acquisition of perfective and imperfective morphology and the marking of discourse grounding in Catalan (by Comajoan, Llorenc) 5. The acquisition of tense and aspect in L2 French from a Universal Grammar perspective (by Ayoun, Dalila) 6. Italian tense-aspect morphology in child L2 acquisition (by Rocca, Sonia) 7. Evidence for transfer of knowledge of aspect from L2 Spanish to L3 Portuguese (by Salaberry, M. Rafael) 8. From empirical findings to the teaching of aspectual distinctions (by Blyth, Carl S.) 9. Towards a comprehensive model of the acquisition of L2 tense-aspect in the Romance languages (by Ayoun, Dalila) 10. References 11. Index