Provides an overview of present trends in the study of adult additive multilingualism from formal, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives, adding new

This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that i

What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constra

Provides a comprehensive overview of third language acquisition (additive multilingualism) in adulthood, an increasingly important subfield of language acquisit

This volume brings together six case studies of an adult multilingual speaker who acquires a new language through social interaction. The book deals especially