Claire Moyse-Faurie
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claire Moyse-Faurie is involved.
2022 Chapter 4. Deictic directionals revisited in the light of advances in typology Neglected Aspects of Motion-Event Description: Deixis, asymmetries, constructions, Sarda, Laure and Benjamin Fagard (eds.), pp. 69–94 | Chapter
This study explores the issue of Associated Motion (hereafter AM) in five languages spoken in Africa and Asia. We investigate grammatical morphemes whose function is to add a motion process to the event encoded in the verb expressing the main (non-motion) event, and to specify the temporal… read more
2021 Linguistic expressions of Goal, Source and Place in Polynesian languages Source-Goal (a)symmetries across languages, Kopecka, Anetta and Marine Vuillermet (eds.), pp. 75–108 | Article
In Polynesian languages, as in many other Oceanic languages, the linguistic expression of Source and Goal is mainly express by (i) demonstratives and directional modifiers, which combine deictic and spatial information (toward speaker, addressee or third person, upwards, downwards, transverse… read more
2021 Chapter 5. Antipassive constructions in Oceanic languages Antipassive: Typology, diachrony, and related constructions, Janic, Katarzyna and Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds.), pp. 149–176 | Chapter
This article will discuss the different constructions which could be relevant for identifying antipassives in Oceanic languages, in spite of the fact that there is no dedicated antipassive marker. Some of these constructions involve the backgrounding of the object, but are associated with… read more
2016 Referential markers in Oceanic nominalized constructions Finiteness and Nominalization, Chamoreau, Claudine and Zarina Estrada-Fernández (eds.), pp. 171–204 | Article
Nominalized constructions are a very frequent phenomenon in Oceanic languages, used in nominal, relative, or imperative clauses as arguments, adjuncts, or the prototypical expression of exclamations. I provide evidence that contrary to widespread views, tense, negation, and aspect markers do occur… read more
2011 Impersonal constructions in some Oceanic languages Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 581–606 | Article
Kanak and the Polynesian languages exhibit a wide range of impersonal constructions which may involve: (i) the lack or frequent omission of
arguments; (ii) optional impersonal construction of monovalent verbs or intransitive construction of bivalent verbs, associated with different meanings; (iii)… read more
2007 35. Reciprocal, sociative, reflexive, and iterative constructions in East Futunan Reciprocal Constructions, Nedjalkov, Vladimir P. (ed.), pp. 1511–1543 | Chapter
2004 16. Coordination in Oceanic languages and Proto Oceanic Coordinating Constructions, Haspelmath, Martin (ed.), pp. 445–497 | Chapter
1.Introduction
1.1 Typological preliminaries
1.2 Existing reconstructions
2. Nominal coordination
2.1 Tight and loose coordination
2.2 Common NPs vs proper NPs coordination
3. Verb phrase and clausal coordination
3.1 Phrasal (NP/VP) and clausal coordination marked… read more






