Elizabeth Pearce
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elizabeth Pearce plays a role.
2016 Whither Realis marking: Loss and specialization in an Oceanic language Diachronica 33:1, pp. 67–94 | Article
The verb paradigms of declarative clauses in Unua (an Oceanic language of Malakula, Vanuatu) have a distinct Irrealis prefix b- contrasting with zero marking for the Realis. In relative clauses, however, the Irrealis b- contrasts with a prefix m- encoding realis interpretations. On the basis of… read more
2010 Possession syntax in Unua DPs Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics, Mercado, Raphael, Eric Potsdam and Lisa deMena Travis (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Article
The Unua dialect of Unua-Pangkumu, like other Oceanic languages of Vanuatu, has contrasting Direct and Indirect Possession constructions. Although these constructions are well-known from the literature, they have not yet been subsumed into a formal syntactic framework. In the terms of such a… read more
2007 24. The reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *na in Unua Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley, Siegel, Jeff, John Lynch and Diana Eades (eds.), pp. 327–339 | Article
1997 Negation and Indefinites in Maori Negation and Polarity: Syntax and semantics. Selected papers from the colloquium Negation: Syntax and Semantics. Ottawa, 11–13 May 1995, Forget, Danielle, Paul Hirschbühler, France Martineau and María Luisa Rivero (eds.), pp. 271–288 | Article
1991 On Comparing French and Italian: The Switch From illum mihi to mihi illum New Analyses in Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XVIII, Urbana-Champaign, April 7–9, 1988, Wanner, Dieter and Douglas A. Kibbee (eds.), pp. 253–272 | Article
1986 Variation in case marking with infinitival and clausal complements Diversity and Diachrony, Sankoff, David, pp. 261–277 | Article