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Dr

Elizabeth Pearce

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Elizabeth Pearce

 
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Dr

Elizabeth Pearce

 

I work in the area of formal syntax and I am especially interested in studying data from closely related languages for the insights that such study can give into language structure and change. In my most recent work, I have focused on Oceanic languages, especially including Māori and the Vanuatu language Unua.

I have also done research on synchronic and diachronic stages of languages in the Romance family.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 6 most recent scholarly works by Elizabeth Pearce.

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Testing syllable prominence in Unua words

E Pearce, Alexandra Birchfield

Presentation  |  2018

Vanuatu Languages Conference.

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Preverbal subjects and preverbal particles in Māori

E Pearce

Presentation  |  2018

Toronto Polynesian Syntax Workshop

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Functional Predicates in Unua

Elizabeth Pearce

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Journal of Linguistics

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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..

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Whither Realis marking: Loss and specialization in an Oceanic language

Elizabeth Pearce

Journal article  |  2016  |  Diachronica. International Journal for Historical Linguistics. Founded by E.F.K. Koerner, General Editor, 1984–2001

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

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A Grammar of Unua

Elizabeth Pearce

Book  |  2015

The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu.

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Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Languages And Linguistics

Committee Member

Scientific Council: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme du Pacifique

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Master of Arts

Monash University

Licence-ès-Lettres

Paris-Sorbonne

Bachelor of Arts

University of Melbourne