Typology and language acquisition / Bernard Comrie -- Relative clauses in early bilingual development / Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip -- Learner varieties and language types / Giuliano Bernini -- Adnominal possession / Björn Hammarberg and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm -- Gerunds as optional categories in second language learning / Anna Giacalone Ramat -- Iconicity and finiteness in the development of early grammar in French as l2 and in French-based creoles / Daniel Věronique -- Lexicalisation of aspectual structures in English and Japanese / Yasuhiro Shirai and Yumiko Nishi -- Using nouns for reference maintenance / Henriëtte Hendricks -- Crosslinguistic comparison and second language acquisition / Rosanna Sornicola -- Typology and information organisation / Mary Carroll and Christiane Von Stutterheim -- Typological comparison and interlanguage phonology / Stefania Giannini