This book provides a practical and extensive guide for the International Corpus Network of
Asian Learners of English (ICNALE), a unique dataset including more than 15,000 samples …

This study examines the variable positioning of a finite adverbial subordinate clause and its
main clause with the subordinate clause either preceding or following the main clause in …

One of the final hurdles for advanced L2 learners is the acquisition of lexico‐and
morphosyntactic alternations when constrained by information‐structure (IS) factors like …

This dissertation first tests Hamlaoui's (2011) hypothesis that the use of wh-in situ (SVQ) in
colloquial French is conditioned by givenness, specifically, that in situ questions should be …

This paper examines the use of clause-initial adverbials in English novice writing. Previous
research has identified frequent use of such adverbials as characteristic of Dutch EFL …

In a previous series of crosslinguistic empirical studies in the domain of narratives and
picture descriptions, it has been shown that different conceptual principles of discourse …

This chapter brings together research findings on the role of transfer in multilingual writing.
Transfer plays a role both in the cognitive processes involved in writing and in the linguistic …

Previous studies on information-structural transfer in texts produced by Dutch advanced
learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) have found that one of the defining …