Maria Polinsky

Professor of Linguistics

Month: December 2016

Agreement

I work on Agreement in various languages. Here are some of my recent publications:

Agreement in Archi from a Minimalist Perspective” from Oxford University Press

     “Biabsolutives in Archi” from the proceedings of LSA 88

Dagestanian Research

Here is some work that I have done on Dagestanian languages:

For more information, please visit my Publications page.

Georgian Research

Coming soon

Mayan Research

Here is some of the research I have done on Mayan languages:

For more information, please visit my Publications page.

Polynesian Research

Here is some research I have done related to Polynesian languages:

For more information, please see my Publications page.

Heritage Languages

I work on finding the structural differences between monolingual and bilingual grammars in the heritage languages of the world. Here you can find some work that I have done on this topic:

Revisiting Inverse Scope: an Experimental Study of Chinese and English

    “Structure vs. Use in Heritage Language” from Linguistics Vanguard

    “Heritage Language and Linguistic Theory” from Frontiers in Psychology

Ergativity

I work on syntactic ergativity in a variety of languages. Below you can find some examples of my work:

Antipassive” from the Oxford Handbook of Ergativity

Syntactic Ergativity” from The Blackwell Companion to Syntax

Deconstructing Ergativity: Two Types of Ergative Language” from Oxford University Press

Ergativity and the Complexity of Extracton: A View from Mayan” from Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Tsez Syntax” personal manuscript

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