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.
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Laleko, O. 2018. “What is difficult about grammatical gender? Evidence from heritage Russian.” Journal of Language Contact, 11(2): 233-267.
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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.
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Laleko, O. and M. Polinsky. 2017. “Silence is difficult: Referential dependencies in bilingual grammars.” Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft. 36(1): 135-163.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.