Abstract
Romance languages, including French, tend to put much information in the left periphery whereas in Swedish the trend seems to be the opposite (Morel & Danon-Boileau, 1998, Conway, 2005, Hancock, 2007, Fant, in press). The first objective is to provide a global overview of the taxonomy of the constituents of the left and right periphery in French and Swedish L1, in order to afford a comparative analysis. The second objective is to compare French L2 usage with that of French L1. The results indicate significant differences between the patterns employed in the syntactic peripheries in French and Swedish. Swedish speakers tend to use the right periphery significantly more than L1 French speakers. As far as the left periphery is concerned, the production of French speakers far exceeds that of Swedish speakers. Advanced speakers of French L2 approach French L1 except regarding the most complex left peripheries.
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