This paper presents and analyzes the encoding of aspect in Heritage Russian (HR), an incompletely acquired language spoken by those for whom another language became dominant at an early age. The HR aspectual system is distinct from the baseline. Aspectual distinctions are lost due to the leveling or loss of morphological marking. As a result, heritage speakers often maintain only one member of a former aspectual pair. Such HR verb forms are underspecified for aspect. To compensate for that, heritage speakers regularly express aspect through the use of analytical forms with the light verbs ‘be’, ‘become’, ‘do’. The frequent occurrence of these forms supports the notion that aspectual distinctions are universal, belonging with the conceptual representation of events. What varies is the actual linguistic encoding of these distinctions, but not the underlying distinctions themselves.
2023. Input factors in the acquisition of evidentiality by Turkish heritage language children and adults in the United States. Language Acquisition► pp. 1 ff.
Listanti, Andrea & Jacopo Torregrossa
2023. The production of preverbal and postverbal subjects by Italian heritage children: Timing of acquisition matters. First Language 43:4 ► pp. 431 ff.
Tskhovrebov, Alan S. & Galina N. Shamonina
2023. Syntactic features of Russian speech of two generations of bilinguals and monolinguals: a complex sentence. Russian Language Studies 21:3 ► pp. 293 ff.
Whitehead Martelle, Wendy & Yasuhiro Shirai
2023. The Aspect Hypothesis and L2 Russian. Frontiers in Language Sciences 2
Dehé, Nicole & Tanja Kupisch
2022. Prepositional phrases and case in North American (heritage) Icelandic. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 45:3 ► pp. 254 ff.
Levy-Forsythe, Zarina & Aviya Hacohen
2022. Finiteness marking in Russian-speaking children with Specific Language Impairment. First Language 42:1 ► pp. 124 ff.
2010. Verbs of motion in L1 Russian of Russian–English bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 13:1 ► pp. 49 ff.
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2021. Heritage Languages around the World. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 11 ff.
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2021. Grammatical Aspects of Heritage Languages. In The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics, ► pp. 579 ff.
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