The results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. Developmental relations between form and function are studied across a range of functional categories, such as temporality, and perspective.

1. 1. Development of narrative production in multilingual context (by Verhoeven, Ludo); 2. 2. Temporality and language contact in narratives by children bilingual in Norwegian and English (by Lanza, Elizabeth); 3. 3. Reference continuation in L2 narratives of Turkish adolescents in Norway (by Nistov, Ingvild); 4. 4. Age-related and L2-related features in bilingual narrative development in Sweden (by Viberg, Ake); 5. 5. Sociocultural aspects of bilingual narrative developmen in Sweden (by Boyd, Sally); 6. 6. The development of co-constructed narratives by Turkish children in Germany (by Pfaff, Carol W.); 7. 7. Influence of L1 Turkish on L2 French narratives (by Akinci, Mehmet-Ali); 8. 8. Development of temporal relations in narratives by Turkish-Dutch bilingual children (by Aarssen, Jeroen); 9. 9. Temporality issues in Moroccan Arabic and Dutch (by Bos, Petra); 10. 10. Bilingual narrative development in Papiamento and Dutch (by Severing, Ria); 11. 11. Linguistic features of Spanish-Hebrew children's narratives (by Kupersmitt, Judy); 12. 12. Narrative development in Hebrew and English (by Kaufman, Dorit); 13. 13. Trilingual children narrating in Hebrew, English and Spanish (by Stavans, Anat); 14. 14. Logic and mind in Spanish - English children's narratives (by Pearson, Barbara Zurer); 15. 15. From affect to language: development of evaluation in narratives in spoken English and American Sign Language (by Reilly, Judy); 16. 16. Narrative development in multilingual contexts: A cross-linguistic perspective (by Berman, Ruth A.); 17. Index