Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Second language acquisition, experimental semantics, syntax/semantics interface
Additional Campus Affiliations
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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Affiliated with:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Books
Ionin, Tania, and Ora Matushansky. 2018. Cardinals: The syntax and semantics of cardinal-containing expressions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul. 2023. Second language acquisition: Introducing intervention research. Cambridge University Press.
Ionin, Tania and Tatiana Luchkina. 2026. The acquisition of Russian as a second language: A research overview. Routledge.
Edited volumes
Ionin, Tania, Silvina Montrul and Roumyana Slabakova (Eds.). 2024. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics. Routledge.
Ionin, Tania and Silvina Montrul (Eds.). 2026. New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference. Language Acquisition and Language Disorders Series, John Benjamins.
Recent Publications
Ionin, T. (2026). Defining and testing multiple grammars. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 16(2), 129-132. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.25029.ion
Ionin, T., & Montrul, S. (2026). New frontiers and connections in second language acquisition: Introduction. In T. Ionin, & S. Montrul (Eds.), New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference (pp. 1-6). (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders; Vol. 71). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.71.intro
Ionin, T. (2026). Sensitivity to missing plural marking in L2 English: A role for cross-linguistic influence? Second Language Research, 42(2), 249-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583251389436
Ionin, T., & Luchkina, T. (2026). THE ACQUISITION OF RUSSIAN AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: A Research Overview. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003438694
Wu, M. J., & Ionin, T. (2026). The effect of input flooding and explicit instruction on L2 acquisition of English inverse scope. Language Teaching Research, 30(2), 771-800. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688231153759