Formal approaches to complexity in heritage languages

Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park and Director of the National Heritage Research Center at UCLA. She is the founder and Director of several research field stations. Polinsky’s research combines theoretical syntactic work with in-depth investigation of understudied languages. She also has an active research program in heritage languages. She edited several handbooks including the Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (2021), and she is the author of over a hundred scholarly articles and several books including Deconstructing Ergativity (2016) and Heritage Languages and Their Speakers (2018).