This book focuses on child second language development. The cross-sectional study investigates the syntax-semantics interface in second language German and French. The findings suggest that all child second language learners go through a Romance stage when acquiring generic reference before progressing to a Germanic stage in second language German.
Nadine Kolb holds a PhD degree in English linguistics from the University of Cologne, Germany. She is an Associate Professor in English language in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the AcqVA Aurora Center at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Her research focuses on child second and third language acquisition, heritage language bilingualism and multilingual education.