Elizabeth Pearce

Preverbal subjects and preverbal particles: Components of the left periphery in Māori

Elizabeth Pearce

Book Chapter  |  2021

Basic sentences in Maōri have VSO constituent ordering, but the nominative argument can precede the verb in constructions that hav..

Preverbal subjects and preverbal particles

Elizabeth Pearce

Presentation  |  2021

Toronto Polynesian Syntax Workshop

Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces

Book Chapter  |  2021

This volume presents research in theoretical syntax and its interfaces with semantics and prosody within the Polynesian language f..

Syllable prominence in Unua

Elizabeth Pearce, alexandra Birchfield

Journal article  |  2021  |  Languages and Linguistics in Melanesia

An acoustic study based on data from a collection of audio recordings of Unua (Malakula, Vanuatu) narratives found a lack of syste..

Negation and Constituent Ordering: Case studies

Elizabeth Pearce

Book Chapter  |  2020

The addition of a marker of sentential negation to an affirmative sentence can give rise to effects in the morpho-syntactic make-u..

Testing syllable prominence in Unua words

E Pearce, Alexandra Birchfield

Presentation  |  2018

Vanuatu Languages Conference.

Functional Predicates in Unua

Elizabeth Pearce

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Journal of Linguistics

In Unua, an Oceanic language of Malakula, Vanuatu, there are predicates which can occur as the fully inflected verb of a clause or..

Person marking in three Oceanic languages

E Pearce

Presentation  |  2016

AFLA 23: The Proceedings of the 23rd Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association, A-PL 34, ed. by Hiroki Nomoto, Ta..

Whither Realis marking: Loss and specialization in an Oceanic language

Elizabeth Pearce

Journal article  |  2016  |  Diachronica: international journal for historical linguistics

The verb paradigms of declarative clauses in Unua (an Oceanic language of Malakula, Vanuatu) have a distinct Irrealis prefix b- co..

Person marking in Three Oceanic Languages

Elizabeth Pearce

Book Chapter  |  2016

The paper proposes that the contrasting morphosyntax of CNPs versus pronoun/Proper name objects in Fijian, Iaai and Drehu, is acco..