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Part 1 Introduction: aims of the analysis; the ESF project -second-language acquisition by adult immigrants; previous work on theacquisition of temporality; data base; procedure of data analysis. Part 2Frame of analysis: the inflexional paradigm bias; linguistic meaning properand contextual information; temporal relations and inherent temporalfeatures, tense and aspect, temporal adverbials; discourse organzation andthe "principle of natural order". Part 3 The acquisition of English: fromItalian to English; from Punjabi to English; summary of TL-English. Part 4The acquisition of German: from Italian to German; from Turkish to German;summary of TL-German. Part 5 The acquisition of Dutch: from Turkish to Dutch;from Moroccan Arabic to Dutch; summary of TL-Dutch. Part 6 The acquisition ofFrench: from Arabic to French; from Spanish to French; summary of TL-French.Part 6 The acquisition of Swedish: from Spanish to Swedish; from Finnish toSwedish; summary of TL-Swedish. Part 8 Conclusions: similarities anddifferences; the overall structure of the acquisition process; temporalexpressions - what after what?; final causal considerations.