Approaching language transfer through text classification : explorations in the detection-based approach

• This book gives the most comprehensive explanation of the detection-based approach to the investigation of crosslinguistic influence that has yet been published. • This is the first collection of studies situated within the detection-based framework. • The studies in this book represent the most comprehensive and in-depth examination to date of the nature and extent of crosslinguistic influence in the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE).