Italian is a Romance language, spoken in Italy–including the Republic of San Marino and
the Vatican City–as well as in the Italophone canton Ticino and in the canton Grisons, in …

This paper argues for a constructionist approach to viewpoint Aspect by exploring the idea
that it does not exert any altering force on the situation-aspect properties of predicates. The …

This book provides a first-ever comprehensive overview of the grammatical structure of Fwe.
Fwe is a Bantu language spoken on the border between Zambia and Namibia, by some …

Without diminishing the emotional trials and suffering that some PhD students go through,
writing this dissertation has been an incredibly fun experience. Working on a single topic, as …

Research has shown that many factors influence the transfer process in L3 acquisition (eg,
language distance, L2-status, proficiency in the L2/L3). Regarding the L2/L3 acquisition of …

Aspect concerns the linguistic representation of the “internal” temporal properties of a
situation. It encompasses both explicitly marked grammatical categories, such as …

The present study examines the influence of L2 English on the acquisition of perfective and
imperfective aspect in L3 Spanish among German-speaking learners. We will argue that …

The Spanish imperfecto can receive different interpretations according to context. This raises
several questions: 1) Is it possible to provide a restrictive and motivated account of the …

Research has shown that non-native background languages (L2s) can play an important
role in the acquisition of an L3/Ln. However, only a few studies have focussed on positive …

This dissertation deals with the classification of verbs in Nyamwezi, a Bantu language
spoken in central west Tanzania. The major aims of this study have been twofold: first, to …