Feature-marking in the L2 development of deverbal compounds Earlier versions of this paper were presented at Second Language Research Forum, Concordia and McGill Universities (6–9 October 1994) and the Boston University Conference on Language Development (4–6 November 1994). We are indebted to members of the NorthEast Language Acquisition Group (NELAG) for their constructive criticisms and help: Roger Maylor, Ianthi Tsimpli, Martha Young-Scholten, and especially Ute Bohnacker, Belma Haznedar, Isa Muxí, Bernadette Plunkett and Dan Robertson. For discussion (as well as questions