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  1. What can only returnees teach us about language?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, November 2025, John Benjamins

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  2. Multiple grammars within linguistic populations

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, July 2025, John Benjamins

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  3. The Sound Pattern of Heritage Spanish: An Exploratory Study on the Effects of a Classroom Experience

    Article • Languages, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  4. Headedness and the Lexicon: The Case of Verb-to-Noun Ratios

    Article • Languages, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  5. A roadmap for heritage language research

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, October 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  6. Restructuring in heritage grammars

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, August 2019, John Benjamins

    Dr Natalia Meir, Prof. Maria Polinsky

  7. Understanding heritage languages

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, June 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  8. Subextraction in Japanese and subject-object symmetry

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  9. Field stations for linguistic research: A blueprint of a sustainable model

    Article • Language, January 2019, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  10. Equidistance returns

    Article • The Linguistic Review, September 2018, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  11. Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

    Article • July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  12. Corrigendum

    Article • Sign Language Studies, January 2018, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  13. Heritage Language Narratives 1

    Article • September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  14. Antipassive

    Article • August 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  15. Syntactic Ergativity

    Article • February 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  16. Silence is difficult: On missing elements in bilingual grammars

    Article • Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  17. deconstructing ergativity

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  18. Cross-linguistic landscape

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  19. Deconstructing Ergativity

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  20. Ergative as a PP

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  21. Ergative as a PP

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  22. Introduction

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  23. Prepositional phrases

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  24. Proposal

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  25. Taking stock

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  26. The other ergative

    Article • May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  27. Between syntax and discourse

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, March 2016, John Benjamins

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  28. Structure vs. use in heritage language

    Article • Linguistics Vanguard, January 2016, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  29. Heritage language and linguistic theory

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2015, Frontiers

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  30. Almost Everything Is Relative in the Caucasus

    Article • Semantics and Linguistic Theory, April 2015, Semantics and Pragmatics

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  31. The differential representation of number and gender in Spanish

    Article • The Linguistic Review, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  32. Erratum to: Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  33. The biabsolutive construction in Lak and Tsez

    Article • Lingua, October 2014, Elsevier

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  34. Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  35. Acquisition of Russian gender agreement by monolingual and bilingual children

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, August 2014, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  36. When L1 becomes an L3: Do heritage speakers make better L3 learners?– CORRIGENDUM

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, July 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  37. Left edge topics in Russian and the processing of anaphoric dependencies

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  38. When L1 becomes an L3: Do heritage speakers make better L3 learners?

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, December 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  39. Is it all processing all the way down?*

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, September 2013, John Benjamins

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  40. Diagnosing Covert A‐Movement

    Article • July 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  41. Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges Reply to peer commentaries

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  42. Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  43. Subject/object processing asymmetries in Korean relative clauses: Evidence from ERP data

    Article • Language, January 2013, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  44. Subject/object processing asymmetries in Korean relative clauses: Evidence from ERP data: Color versions of Figures 2–4, 6–8

    Article • Language, January 2013, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  45. Subject preference and ergativity

    Article • Lingua, February 2012, Elsevier

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  46. The Syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic Construction

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2012, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  47. Backward Raising

    Article • Metascience, June 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  48. REANALYSIS IN ADULT HERITAGE LANGUAGE

    Article • Studies in Second Language Acquisition, May 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  49. Against Covert A-Movement in Russian Unaccusatives

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, April 2011, The MIT Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  50. Why not heritage speakers?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, March 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Silvina Andrea Montrul, Prof. Maria Polinsky

  51. Processing morphological ambiguity: An experimental investigation of Russian numerical phrases

    Article • Lingua, February 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  52. Relative embeddings: a Circassian puzzle for the syntax/semantics interface

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  53. Resumption Still Does Not Rescue Islands

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, January 2011, The MIT Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  54. Linguistic Typology and Formal Grammar

    Article • November 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  55. Movement Theory of Control

    Article • April 2010, John Benjamins

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  56. Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry: An eye-tracking study of prenominal relative clauses in Korean

    Article • Language, January 2010, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  57. Closest conjunct agreement in head final languages

    Article • Linguistic Variation Yearbook, December 2009, John Benjamins

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  58. Focus in Aghem*

    Article • October 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Larry M Hyman, Prof. Maria Polinsky

  59. Does headedness affect processing? A new look at the VO–OV contrast

    Article • Journal of Linguistics, September 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  60. Introduction

    Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  61. Clause structure and adjuncts in Austronesian languages (review)

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2009, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  62. The syntax and semantics of wanting in Indonesian

    Article • Lingua, October 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  63. Violations of information structure: An electrophysiological study of answers to wh-questions

    Article • Brain and Language, September 2007, Elsevier

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  64. Reaching the end point and stopping midway: different scenarios in the acquisition of Russian

    Article • Russian Linguistics, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  65. Linguistic typology and theory construction: Common challenges ahead

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2007, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  66. Missing Complement Clause Subjects in Malagasy

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2007, Project Muse

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  67. Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising

    Article • Metascience, August 2006, Wiley

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  68. Non-canonical agreement is canonical

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, August 2003, Wiley

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  69. The marvels of Tsakhur

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2003, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  70. Backward Control

    Article • Linguistic Inquiry, April 2002, The MIT Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  71. Efficiency preferences: refinements, rankings, and unresolved questions. Commentary on the paper by John A. Hawkins

    Article • Theoretical Linguistics, January 2002, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  72. Grammatical Voice

    Article • January 2001, Elsevier

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  73. Article • Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  74. Processing of Grammatical Gender in Normal and Aphasic Speakers of Russian

    Article • Cortex, January 2001, Elsevier

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  75. Tsez Beginnings

    Article • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, August 1999, Semantics and Pragmatics

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  76. Agreement in Tsez

    Article • Folia Linguistica, January 1999, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  77. Article • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  78. Possessives in English

    Article • Language, December 1998, JSTOR

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  79. Review Article

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 1998, De Gruyter

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  80. Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics

    Article • Language, December 1997, JSTOR

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  81. Review of Comrie & Polinsky (1993): Causatives and Transitivity

    Article • Functions of Language, January 1995, John Benjamins

    Liesbeth Degand, Prof. Maria Polinsky

  82. Double Objects in Causatives

    Article • Studies in Language, January 1995, John Benjamins

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  83. Causatives and Transitivity

    Article • September 1993, John Benjamins

    Bernard Comrie, Prof. Maria Polinsky

  84. Maori "He" Revisited

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 1992, JSTOR

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  85. Private versus Public Enforcement of Fines

    Article • April 1979, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  86. Heritage Languages

    Article • Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  87. Case and grammatical relations

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  88. Raising and control

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Maria Polinsky

  89. Word Class Distinctions in an Incomplete Grammar

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Maria Polinsky