Volume 17 in the Second Language Acquisition Series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: Language Contact and Language Transfer Revisited

1. On the Ambiguity of the Notion 'Transfer' / Hans W. Dechert

2. Language Tansfer in Language Learning and Language Contact / Janusz Arabski

3. Could a Contrastive Analysis Ever be Complete? / Terence Odlin

4. The Importance of Different Types of Similarity in Transfer Studies / Hakan Ringbom

5. Language Contact vs. Foreign and Second Language Acquisition / Elzbieta Manczak-Wohlfeld

PART 2: Language Contact Observed

6. Genre: Language Contact and Culture Transfer / Andrzej Lyda

7. Is Cross-Linguistic Influence a Factor in Advancted EFL Learners' Use of Collocations? / Justyna Lesniewska

8. International Terms and Profile Transfer: On Discussion / Krystyna Warchal

9. The Influence of English on Polish Drug-related Slang / Magdalena Bartlomiejczyk

PART 3: Lexical Transfer in Language Processing

10. Why Money Can't Buy You Anything in German: A Functional-Typological Approach to the Mapping of Semantic Roles to Syntactic Functions in SLA / Marcus Callies

11. Lexical Transfer : Interlexical or Intralexical? / David Singleton

12. The Interaction of Languages in the Lexical Search of Multilingual Language Users / Danuta Gabrys-Barker

13. Assessing L2 Lexical Development in Early L2 Learning : A Case Study / Anna Lizegorodcew

14. Code-mixing in Early L2 Lexical Acquisition / Joanna Rokita

PART 4: Lexical Transfer in Fixed Expressions

15. Metaphorical Transferability / Rüdiger Zimmermann

16. On the Use of Translation in Studies of Language Contact / Jolanta Latkowska

17. On Building Castles on the sand, or Exploring the Issue of Transfer in the Interpretation and Production of L2 Fixed Expressions / Anna Cieslicka

18. 'Don't Lose Your Head' or How Polish Learners of English Cope with L2 Idiomatic Expressions / Liliana Piasecka

19. Phrasal Verb Idioms and the Normative Concept of the Interlanguage Hypothesis / Przemyslaw Olejniczak

About the Author: "Janusz Arabski graduated from UCLA. He took his PhD at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He is Professor of English and Chairman of the English Language Institute at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. He has published a number of books and articles in the areas of applied linguistics, foreign language learning, psycholinguistics, contrastive studies lexicography." (Book Cover)

"This book explores different aspects of language transfer, a phenomenon first described over a century ago, but which has only recently become an important subject of language study. Language transfer is considered here as a result of language contact in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition and learning contexts. The major focus of this book is on the lexical structures of language transfer. In its four sections the volume presents the following aspects of the phenomenon: Language Transfer and Language Contact Revisited is devoted to the theoretical aspects of the problem; Language Contact Observed consists of studies which are corpus based; Lexical Transfer in Language Processing is a study of interference in translation tasks, acquisition of lexis, code mixing and the role of instructional input; and Lexical Transfer in Fixed Expressions deals with the acquisition and processing of L2 idioms, phrasal verbs, fixed phrases, collocations and figurative expressions. This book is designed to be useful both to psycholinguists and to foreign language teachers interested in language learning processes and to contribute to the further development of the subject." (Book Cover)