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Information structure

Maria Polinsky (1998). A Non-Syntactic Account of Some Asymmetries in the Double Object Construction. In Jean-Pierre Koenig, ed. Conceptual Structure and Language: Bridging the Gap,  403-423. Stanford: CSLI.
Maria Polinsky (1999). Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representation of Discourse Referents. Language 75: 567-583.
Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam (2001). Long-Distance Agreement and Topic in Tsez. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 19: 583-646.
Maria Polinsky (2001). Information structure and syntax: Topic, discourse-linking, and agreement. Third Workshop on Spoken and Written Texts. Austin: Texas Linguistic Forum.
Maria Polinsky (2002). Efficiency preferences: Refinements, rankings and unresolved questions. Theoretical Linguistics  28: 177-202.
Larry Hyman and Maria Polinsky (2006). Focus in Aghem. Paper presented at the SFB Conference on Information Structure, University of Potsdam.

Noun categorization

Maria Polinsky and Dan Jackson (1998). Noun Classes: Language Change and Learning. In B. Fox et al., eds. Cognition and Function in Language, 29-49. Stanford: CSLI.
Maria Polinsky and Ezra Van Everbroeck (2003). Development of gender classifications: Modeling the historical change from Latin to French. Language 79: 356-390.
Nicoleta Bateman and Maria Polinsky (2006). Romanian as a two-gender language. Mansucript, UCSD.
Maria Polinsky, in press. Gender under incomplete acquisition.


Control structures

Maria Polinsky (2001). Tsez beginnings. BLS 25.
Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam (2002). Backward Control. Linguistic Inquiry 33: 245-282.
Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam (2002). Backward Control: Evidence from Malagasy. AFLA-VIII, MIT.
Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam (2003). Control in Malagasy. AFLA-IX, Cornell.
Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam (2004). Malagasy Control and its Theoretical Implications. BLS 30.
Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam (2006). Expanding the scope of control and raising. To appear in Syntax.
Nayoung Kwon and Maria Polinsky (2006). Object control in Korean: Structure and processing. To appear in Japanese/Korean Linguistics 15.


Heritage languages

Maria Polinsky (1996). American Russian: An Endangered Language? Manuscript, USC-UCSD.
Maria Polinsky (1997). Cross-Linguistic Parallels in Language Loss. Southwestern Journal of Linguistics 14: 1-45.
Maria Polinsky (1997). American Russian: Language Loss Meets Language Acquisition. In Wayles Browne et al., eds. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, 370-407. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications.
Maria Polinsky (2005). Word class distinctions in an incomplete grammar. In Dorit Ravid and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot, eds. Perspectives on language and language development, 419-436. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Maria Polinsky, in press. Heritage Language Narratives. In Donna Brinton and Olga Kagan, eds. Heritage Languages: A New Field Emerging. Erlbaum.
see also under Noun categorization


Encyclopedia articles and surveys
 Maria Polinsky (2005). Antipassive constructions. The World Atlas of Language Structures, 438-441. Oxford: OUP.
Maria Polinsky (2005). Applicative constructions. The World Atlas of Language Structures, 442-445. Oxford: OUP.
Maria Polinsky (in press). Linguistic typology and formal grammar. In  Jae Jung Song (ed.). Handbook of Typology.

 
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