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  •  Editors: Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul, Roumyana Slabakova (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics. Routledge.   This handbook provides innovative and comprehensive coverage of research on the second language acquisition (SLA) of morphosyntax, semantics, and the interface between the two. Organized by...
  • Ionin, Tania & Montrul, Silvina. (2023). Second Language Acquisition: Introducing Intervention Research. Cambridge University Press Based on classic and cutting-edge research, this textbook shows how grammatical phenomena can best be taught to second language and bilingual learners. Bringing together second language research, linguistics, pedagogical grammar, and language...
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics Edited by Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / University of Maryland With contributions by current and former faculty and graduate students: Abdulkafi Albirini, Elabbas Benmamoun, Melissa Bowles, Tania Ionin, Jill Jegerski, Hyun Sook Kan, Itxaso Rodríguez, James Yoon. Heritage languages...
  • The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul INaLCO, Paris / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has...
  • Authored by a prominent team of international experts in their respective fields, The Handbook of Informal Language Learning is a one-of-a-kind reference work and it is a timely and valuable resource for anyone looking to explore informal language learning outside of a formal education environment. It features a comprehensive collection of cutting edge research areas exploring...
  •   Ionin, Tania & Matushansky, Ora. (2018). Cardinals: The syntax and semantics of cardinal-containing expressions.  An argument that complex cardinals are not extra-linguistic but built using standard syntax and standard principles of semantic composition.      
  • Ionin, T., & Rispoli, M. (n.d.). Three streams of generative language acquisition research: Introduction (Vol. 63). John Benjamins Publishing Company. This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of...
  • Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion, Edited by: Rajeshwari Vijay Pandharipande, ...
  • Peter Lasersohn (2017) Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-theoretic Semantics. Oxford University Press. This work explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, and examines how truth-theoretic semantics can account for expressions of this type. It provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar paired with...
  • Ionin, T. and Luchkina. T. (2018).  Focus on Russian scope: An experimental investigation of the relationship between quantifier scope, prosody, and information structure. Linguistic Inquiry, 49(4). Abstract: An experimental investigation of quantifier scope in Russian SVO and OVS sentences, in which the factors of word order, prosody, information structure, and indefinite form...