Seminari - Dipartimento Foreign Languages and Literatures validi dal 30.01.2026 al 30.01.2027. https://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=en&rss=0 https://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=en&rss=0&id=6891 Relatore: Natalia Meir; Provenienza: Bar-Ilan University; Data inizio: 2026-02-05; Ora inizio: 16.15; Note orario: ONLINE; Referente interno: Daniele Artoni; Riassunto: Nell#39;ambito del ciclo di seminari SlavLingColl (Slavic Linguistics Colloquia) il 5 febbraio 2026 Natalia Meir (Bar-Ilan University) terragrave; una conferenza dal titolo quot;The Case of the Accusative Case in Heritage Russianquot;. Link Zoom per partecipare: https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/64846185582?pwd=K1kyMGI5WVhjd1ZXNWFJbWc4T0U2Zz09 Abstract: This talk examines the representation and processing of the accusative case in heritage Russian, drawing on evidence from child and adultbilingual speakers of Russian and Hebrew (e.g., Janssen & Meir, 2018; Meir, Avramenko, & Verkhovtceva, 2021). The accusative case provides aparticularly revealing testing ground for heritage grammars due to systematic cross-linguistic differences in object marking. Russian employs astructural morphological case system, sensitive to gender and animacy, realized through inflectional suffixes, whereas Hebrew uses differential objectmarking, expressed by a prenominal particle preceding definite noun phrases.Using a multi-method approach (such as elicited and spontaneous production, grammaticality judgments, eye-tracking, and ERP measures), I showthat accusative marking is vulnerable in heritage Russian across modalities and age groups (Janssen & Meir, 2018; Meir et al., 2021; Meir, Parshina, &Sekerina, 2024). The findings reveal asymmetries between underlying morphosyntactic knowledge and surface realization, modulated by animacy,gender, and cross-linguistic influence, displaying patterns that are characteristic of heritage language grammars (Polinsky, 2018). These results arediscussed within theoretical accounts of heritage language representation, particularly the Feature Re-Assembly Hypothesis, and contribute to a broader understanding of how core grammatical features are shaped by bilingual experience across the lifespan. Selected references: Janssen, B., & Meir, N. (2018). Production, comprehension and repetition of accusative case by monolingual Russian and bilingual Russianndash;Dutch andRussianndash;Hebrew children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.17021.jan. Meir, N., Avramenko, M., & Verkhovtceva, T. (2021). Israeli Russian: Case morphology in a bilingual context. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 25(4), 886ndash;907. https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-2021-25-4-886-907. Meir, N., Parshina, O., & Sekerina, I. (2024). Morphosyntactic cues interact in bilingual sentence processing: An eye-tracking study. LinguisticApproaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.22102.mei Polinsky, M. (2018). Heritage languages and their speakers. Cambridge University Press. Thu, 5 Feb 2026 16:15:00 +0100 https://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=seminario&lang=en&rss=0&id=6891