In this volume, second language acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles . The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level . The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state . Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring . The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state . Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.
In this volume, second language acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles . The first group of papers addresses current language contact at a societal or an individual level . The second section focuses on processes characterizing various stages of L2 acquisition and creole genesis: relexification and transfer from the L1 and their role in the initial state . Chapters in the third section discuss processes involved in developing grammars, namely, reanalysis and restructuring . The final section concentrates on fossilization and the end state . Between them, the chapters cover lexical, morphological, phonological, semantic and syntactic properties of interlanguage grammars and creole grammars.