Cross-Linguistic Influences in the Second Language Lexicon

Nineteen European and American academics contribute 19 papers analyzing the phenomenon of language transfer resulting from language contact in bilingual and multilingual language acquisition and learning contexts, particularly the lexical level of language transfer. Coverage includes a review of the theoretical debate surrounding the definition of language transfer and contact, corpus based studies of language contact, interference in translation tasks, acquisition of lexis, code mixing, the role of instructional input, and lexical transfer in fixed expressions, including second-language idioms, phrasal verbs, fixed phrases, collocations, and figurative expressions. No subject index. For psycholinguists and language teachers. Distributed in the U.S. by UTP Distribution. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Janusz Arabski is a 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 and lexicography.