Research Interests
Second language acquisition, experimental semantics, syntax/semantics interface
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Ionin, T., & Luchkina, T. (2018). Focus on russian scope: An experimental investigation of the relationship between quantifier scope, prosody, and information structure. Linguistic Inquiry, 49(4), 741-779. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00288
Recent Publications
Ionin, T. (2025). Defining and testing multiple grammars. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.25029.ion
Choi, S. H., & Ionin, T. (2024). Plural Marking and the Semantics of Plurality. In T. Ionin, S. Montrul, & R. Slabakova (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics (pp. 141-153). (Routledge Handbooks in Second Language Acquisition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003412373-14
Ionin, T., Luchkina, T., & Goldshtein, M. (2024). Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals. Second Language Research, 40(3), 709-737. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231178101
Ionin, T., Montrul, S., & Slabakova, R. (2024). Introduction. In T. Ionin, S. Montrul, & R. Slabakova (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics (pp. 1-10). (Routledge Handbooks in Second Language Acquisition). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003412373-1
Ionin, T., & Luchkina, T. (2024). Linguistic Knowledge and Proficiency Assessment in Heritage and L2 Russian: Classroom Implications of Experimental Findings. In O. Kisselev, O. Laleko, & I. Dubinina (Eds.), Russian as a Heritage Language: From Research to Classroom Applications (pp. 25-45). (Routledge Russian Language Pedagogy and Research). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003380276-3