Maria Polinsky

Research interests

Publications

• Understanding heritage languages

  Bilingualism Language and Cognition · 2019 · 10.1017/s1366728919000245

• Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107252349

• Antipassive

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2017 · 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.13

• Deconstructing Ergativity: Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features

  · 2016

• Heritage language and linguistic theory

  Frontiers in Psychology · 2015 · 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01545

• Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics

  Theoretical Linguistics · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2013-0009

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

  Theoretical Linguistics · 2013 · 10.1515/tl-2013-0018

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

  Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2011 · 10.1007/s11049-011-9121-9

• REANALYSIS IN ADULT HERITAGE LANGUAGE

  Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 2011 · 10.1017/s027226311000077x

• Focus in Aghem

  · 2009 · 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570959.003.0009

• Gender Under Incomplete Acquisition: Heritage Speakers' Knowledge of Noun Categorization

  Heritage Language Journal · 2008 · 10.46538/hlj.6.1.3

• Handbook of law and economics

  RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2007

• Chapter 6 The Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

  Handbook of law and economics · 2007 · 10.1016/s1574-0730(07)01006-7

• Heritage Languages: In the ‘Wild’ and in the Classroom

  Language and Linguistics Compass · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00022.x

• Incomplete Acquisition American Russian

  Journal of Slavic linguistics · 2006

• The nature of explanation in linguistic theory

  · 2003

• Corruption and optimal law enforcement

  Journal of Public Economics · 2001 · 10.1016/s0047-2727(00)00127-4

• Long-Distance Agreement And Topic In Tsez

  Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2001 · 10.1023/a:1010757806504

• The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law

  Journal of Economic Literature · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.38.1.45

• Information structure and sentence form

  Language · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.2307/417062

• Punitive Damages: An Economic Analysis

  Harvard Law Review · 1998 · 10.2307/1342009

• Should employees be subject to fines and imprisonment given the existence of corporate liability?

  International Review of Law and Economics · 1993 · 10.1016/0144-8188(93)90035-4

• Causatives and Transitivity

  Studies in language companion series · 1993 · 10.1075/slcs.23

• Enforcement Costs and the Optimal Magnitude and Probability of Fines

  The Journal of Law and Economics · 1992 · 10.1086/467247

• The optimal use of fines and imprisonment

  Journal of Public Economics · 1984 · 10.1016/0047-2727(84)90006-9

Current projects

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