Valérie Guérin
List of John Benjamins publications in which Valérie Guérin is involved.
Articles
2021 The discourse marker ale in Bislama oral narratives Journal 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
2014 In search of the origin of na in Mavea Studies 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
2010 Native speakers as documenters: A student initiative at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Language 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