Maria Polinsky

Co-Director of Research

Maria Polinsky is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park and Co-Director of Research at the National Heritage Language Resource Center. Her research interests include syntactic theory, language universals and the range of cross-linguistic variation, and heritage languages and their bearing on linguistic theory. She works on various syntactic topics including long-distance dependencies, verb phrase structure, ergativity, and verb-initial orders. She has done primary work on a variety of languages including the languages of the Caucasus, Austronesian, and Mayan languages. Her research also includes structural properties of language spoken by unbalanced bilinguals: what is now known as heritage language.

National Heritage Language Resource Center
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Los Angeles, CA 90095-1411

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