Tania Ionin

Tania Ionin

Contact Information

4072B Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
Professor, Department Head

Research Interests

Second language acquisition, experimental semantics, syntax/semantics interface

Additional Campus Affiliations

0% appointments in: 

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

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

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