Elizabeth Pearce

Preverbal subjects and preverbal particles

Elizabeth Pearce

Presentation  |  2021

Toronto Polynesian Syntax Workshop

Polynesian Syntax and its Interfaces

Book  |  2021

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

Preverbal subjects and preverbal particles

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..

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..