Recent Publications

Laleko, O. 2019. “Resolving Indeterminacy in Gender Agreement: Comparing Heritage Speakers and L2 Learners of Russian.” Heritage Language Journal. 16(2): 151-182.  Download PDF 
Laleko, O. 2018. “What is difficult about grammatical gender? Evidence from heritage Russian.” Journal of Language Contact, 11(2): 233-267.  Download PDF 
Laleko, O. and I. Dubinina. 2018. “Word order production in heritage Russian: Perspectives from linguistics and pedagogy.” In Bauckus, S. & S. Kresin (eds.), Connecting Across Languages and Cultures: A Heritage Language Festschrift in Honor of Olga Kagan, pp. 191-215. Bloomington, IN: Slavica.  Download PDF 
Laleko, O. and M. Polinsky. 2017. “Silence is difficult: Referential dependencies in bilingual grammars.” Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft. 36(1): 135-163.  Download PDF 
Laleko, O. and M. Polinsky. 2016. "Between syntax and discourse: Topic and case marking in heritage speakers and L2 learners of Japanese and Korean." Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 6(4) , 396-439  Download PDF 
Laleko, O. 2015. "From privative to equipollent: Incipient changes in the aspectual system of heritage Russian." In G. Zybatow, P. Biskup, M. Guhl, C. Hurtig, O. Mueller-Reichau & M. Yastrebova (eds.), Slavic Grammar from a Formal Perspective (pp. 273-286). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.  Download PDF 
Laleko, O. and M. Polinsky. 2015. "Topic-subject asymmetry in Japanese and Korean: Heritage and L2 Speakers." Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, 13: 55-68. Download PDF 
Laleko, O. 2013. "Assessing Heritage Language Vitality: Russian in the United States." Heritage Language Journal, 10(3): 89-102. Download PDF 
Laleko, O. 2013. "Языковые изменения в речи русских эмигрантов в США второго поколения." [Linguistic shifts in the speech of second-generation Russian immigrants to the U.S.]. In: Language in a global context. Язык в глобальном контексте. The Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, INION. Pp. 124-143. Download PDF 
Laleko, O. and M. Polinsky. 2013. "Marking Topic or Marking Case? A Comparative Investigation of Heritage Japanese and Heritage Korean." Heritage Language Journal,10(2): 40-64. Download PDF 
Laleko, O. 2011. "Restructuring of Verbal Aspect in Heritage Russian: Beyond Lexicalization." International Journal of Language Studies 5.3: 13-26.  Download PDF 
Laleko, O. 2010. "On Covert Tense-Aspect Restructuring in Heritage Russian: A Case of Aspectually Transient Predicates." In Iverson, Michael, Ivan Ivanov, Tiffany Judy, Jason Rothman, Roumyana Slabakova, and Marta Tryzna (eds.), Proceedings of the 2009 Mind/Context Divide Workshop. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. Pp. 72-83.  Download PDF
Laleko, O. 2010. "Negative-Contrastive Ellipsis in Russian: Syntax Meets Information Structure." In Smirnova, Anastasia, Vedrana Mihaliček, and Lauren Ressue (eds.), Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 197-218.
Laleko, O. 2008. "Compositional Telicity and Heritage Russian Aspect." In Grosvald, Michael and Dionne Soares (eds.), Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). Vol. 19. UC Davis: Davis, CA. Pp. 150-160.  Download PDF
*Laleko, O. 2007. In Kate Shaw, Sarah Wagner and Eiko Yasui (eds.), "A Study of Language Attrition: American Russian in Minnesota." Symposium about Language and Society - Austin (SALSA) XV. Austin, TX, 12-15 April. Texas Linguistic Forum Vol. 51. Pp. 103-112.

 

Doctoral Dissertation

Laleko, O. 2010. "The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Language Loss: Covert Restructuring of Aspect in Heritage Russian." Doctoral Dissertation.  Download PDF

 

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

Laleko, O. 2017. “Information status and word order in heritage and L2 Russian.” Tenth Heritage Language Research Institute. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. 22-25 May.  Download PDF
Laleko, O. 2015. “What Is Difficult about Grammatical Gender? Evidence from Heritage Russian.” Formal Approaches to Morphosyntactic Variation. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. 24-25 June.
Laleko, O. 2015. “What is Difficult about Grammatical Gender? Comparing Heritage Speakers and L2 Learners of Russian.” Invited Talk, Eighth Heritage Language Research Institute: New Edges and Broader Domains. Harvard University, 1-4 June.
Laleko, O. 2014. “Russian as a heritage language: What we can learn from heritage speakers.” Invited Talk, The Ohio State University Graduate Slavic Colloquium. Columbus, OH. 4 April.
Dubinina, I. & O. Laleko. 2014. “Can heritage speakers tell a story? Word order patterns in Heritage Russian.” Second International Conference on Heritage and Community languages. University of California, Los Angeles. 7-8 March.
Laleko, O. 2013. "Towards a Formal Model of Structural Shifts in the Aspectual System of Heritage Russian." The 10th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (FDSL-10). Leipzig University. Leipzig, Germany. 5-7 December.
Laleko, O. & M. Polinsky. 2013. "What Linguistic Advantages do Heritage Language Speakers Have over Second Language Learners?" The Seventh Heritage Language Research Institute: Heritage Speakers and the Advantages of Bilingualism. University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL. June 17-21.
Laleko, O. & M. Polinsky. 2013. "Topic vs. Case Marking in Japanese and Korean: Comparing Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners." Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 36. Lund University. Lund, Sweden. April 2-6.
Laleko, O. 2013. "The Syntax-Discourse Interface in Subtractive Bilingualism: Topic Marking in Heritage Japanese." The 11th International Symposium on Psycholinguistics. Tenerife, Spain. 20-24 March.
Laleko, O. and M. Polinsky. 2012. "Marking Topic or Marking Case: A Comparative Investigation of Heritage Japanese and Heritage Korean" Sixth Heritage Language Research Institute (UCLA). Los Angeles, CA. 18-22 June. Download PDF 
Laleko, O. 2012. "From Privative to Equipollent: Towards a Unified Model of the Heritage Russian Aspectual System." Formal Approaches to Heritage Languages. University of Massachusetts Amherst. 21-22 April. 
Laleko, O. 2012. "Measures of Linguistic Vitality: Russian as a Heritage Language" The 57th Annual Meeting of the International Linguistic Association. Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. 13-15 April. 
Laleko, O. 2011. "Aspectual System Instanciation in the Grammars of Advanced Heritage Speakers of Russian." Fifth Annual Heritage Research Institute. UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. 25 June - 1 July.  
Laleko, O. 2011. "The Syntax-Pragmatics Interface in Language Shift: A Case of Heritage Russian." The 78th Annual Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. Pine Mountain, GA. 13-15 April.  
Laleko, O. &  H. Kawamura. 2011. "Grammatical Restructuring in Intergenerational Language Shift: A Case of Heritage Japanese." The 56th Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association.  Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ. 15-17 April.  
Laleko, O. 2011. "On C-domain Properties in Acrolectal Heritage Grammars." The 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.  Pittsburgh, PA. 6-9 January.  
Laleko, O. 2010. "Aspectual Interpretations Across Generations: Pragmatically Conditioned Imperfectives in Heritage Russian." Invited Talk. Fourth Summer Heritage Research Institute. Heritage Speakers: Linguistics and Pedagogy. University of Hawaii at Manoa. June 21-25, 2010.  Download PDF
Laleko, O. 2010. "The Science of Linguistics: From Myths To Reality." Invited Talk. State University of New York at New Paltz. May 3, 2010.  Download PDF
Laleko, O. 2010. "What Errors Can't Tell Us about Heritage Grammars: Covert Restructuring of Aspect in Russian." The 84th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Baltimore, MD. 7-10 January.  Download PDF
Laleko, O. 2009. "Tense-Aspect Morphology in Heritage Russian: A View from the Prototype Theory." Mind-Context Divide: Language Acquisition and Interfaces of Cognitive-Linguistic Modules. Iowa City, IA. 30 April - 2 May.
Laleko, O. 2009. "Towards a New Grammar: First Language Attrition and American Russian." British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference. Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK. 28-30 March.
Laleko, O. 2009. "On Predicates of Variable Telicity and Aspect in Heritage Russian." The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America (LSA 2009). San Francisco, CA, 8-11 January.  Download PDF
Laleko, O. 2008. "Morphosyntactic Variation in the Expression of Aspect: Heritage Russian." New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 37. Houston, TX, 6-9 November.
Laleko, O. 2008. "On the Interaction between Lexical and Grammatical Aspects in a Heritage Grammar: Evidence from Russian." Arizona Linguistics Circle 2. Tucson, AZ, 31 October -2 November.
Laleko, O. 2008. "Heritage Russian: Verbal Aspect and the Telicity Parameter." Michigan Linguistics Society (MLS) 38. Detroit, MI, 25 October.
Laleko, O. 2008. "Ellipsis and Polarity in Russian: A Special Case of Topicalization." 6th Graduate Colloquium on Slavic Linguistics. Columbus, OH, 18 October.
Laleko, O. 2008. "First Language Attrition and Verbal Aspect: American Russian." International Conference on Literature, Languages, and Linguistics. Athens, Greece, 28-31 July.
Laleko, O. 2008. "Perfectivity, Telicity, and Attrition of Aspect: Heritage Russian." LSA Summer Meeting. Columbus, OH, 10-13 July.
Laleko, O. 2006. "NET-licensed VPE in Russian: An Information-Structural Account of a Syntactic Puzzle." LSA Summer Meeting. East Lansing, MI, 22-25 June 2006.
Laleko, O. 2004. "When Words Don"t Mean What They Mean: Cultural Literacy and Foreign Language Instruction." Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI, 8-11 January.
Laleko, O. 2003. "Understanding the Problems of ESL Students in the Composition Classroom: Cultural Influences on ESL Writing and Performance." Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI, 12-15 January.