Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and… read more
This chapter critically reviews the way discursive competence has been studied in French SLA, to identify the methodological strengths and limitations of current research. A particular focus is taken on the methods used to track the development of the means to produce cohesive speech in L2… read more
Evidentiality, i.e. the linguistic encoding of the mode of access to information (direct perception, inference, hearsay), despite not being fully grammaticalized in English and French, is expressed through a variety of means. This paper seeks to determine how a relatively non-salient concept in… read more