Valérie Guérin

List of John Benjamins publications for which Valérie Guérin plays a role.

Articles

Alvanoudi, Angeliki and Valérie Guérin 2021 The discourse marker ale in Bislama oral narrativesJournal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36:2, pp. 264–297 | Article
This study takes us to the South Pacific and concentrates on Bislama, one of the dialects of Melanesian pidgin (Siegel 2008: 4) and one of the official languages of Vanuatu. We take a discourse analysis perspective to map out the functions of ale, a conspicuous discourse marker in conversations… read more
Guérin, Valérie 2014 In search of the origin of na in MaveaStudies in Language 38:4, pp. 690–716 | Article
Reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic common noun marker *na are found throughout the Oceanic language family. In Mavea, there is a morpheme na but it no longer partakes in the determiner system and is best analyzed synchronically as a preposition. This paper argues that today’s preposition is a reflex of… read more
Ajo, Frances, Valérie Guérin, Ryoko Hattori and Laura C. Robinson 2010 Native speakers as documenters: A student initiative at the University of Hawai‘i at ManoaLanguage Documentation: Practice and values, Grenoble, Lenore A. and N. Louanna Furbee (eds.), pp. 275–286 | Article
The Language Documentation Training Center (LDTC), a student-run initiative in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, is an innovative program which brings native speakers into the field of documentary linguistics and elevates their roles to central participants in the… read more