Publications

Valérie Guérin, PhD

BOOKS

• Guérin, Valérie (Editor). 2019. Bridging constructions. Berlin: Language Science Press. 

• Guérin, Valérie. 2011. A grammar of Mavea. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

• Guérin, Valérie and Angeliki Alvanoudi. 2022. The role of ale in Mavea narratives. Oceanic Linguistics 21(1):185-211.

• Alvanoudi, Angeliki and Valérie Guérin. 2021. The discourse marker ale in Bislama oral narratives. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 36(2):264-297.

• von Prince, Kilu, Ana Krajinović, Anna Margetts, Nick Thieberger, and Valérie Guérin. 2019. Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia. Language Typology and Universals – STUF 72(1):21-66.

• von Prince, Kilu, Ana Krajinović, Manfred Krifka, Valérie Guérin, and Michael Franjieh. 2019. Mapping irreality: Storyboards for eliciting TAM contexts. In A. Gattnar, R. Hörnig, & M. Störzer (Eds.), Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence 2018. Tübingen: University of Tübingen.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2015. Demonstrative verbs: A typology of verbal manner deixis. Linguistic Typology 19(2):141-199.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2014. In search of the origin of na in Mavea. Studies in Language 38(4):690-716.

• Guérin, Valérie and Sébastien Lacrampe. 2010. Trust me, I am a linguist! Building partnership in the field. Language Documentation and Conservation 4:22-33.

• Guérin, Valérie and Katsura Aoyama. 2009. Mavea.  The Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39(2):249-262.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2008. Writing an endangered language. Language Documentation and Conservation 2(1):47-67.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2007. Definiteness and Specificity in Mavea. Oceanic Linguistics 46(2):538-553.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2006. On tough constructions in French. University of Hawai’i at Manoa Working Papers in Linguistics 37:1-21.

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS

• Guérin, Valérie and Grant Aiton. 2019. Bridging constructions in typological perspective. In: Bridging constructions, ed. by Valérie Guérin, pp 1-44. Berlin: Language science press.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2019. Recapitulative linkage in Mavea. In: Bridging constructions, ed. by Valérie Guérin, pp 207-238. Berlin: Language science press.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2017. Imperatives and command strategies in Tayatuk (Morobe, PNG). In: Commands: a cross-linguistic typology, ed. by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon, pp 206-223. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Guérin, Valérie. 2017. The Oceanic subgroup of Austronesian languages. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology, ed. by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon, pp 911-941. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Guérin, Valérie and Paulina Yorupi. 2016. Language Endangerment. In: Languages of the Pacific islands: Introductory readings, ed. by Hiroko Sato and Joel Bradshaw, pp 178-188. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i

• Ajo, Frances, Valérie Guérin, Ryoko Hattori, and Laura Robinson. 2010. Native speakers as documenters: A student initiative at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. In Language Documentation: Practice and Values, ed. by Lenore Grenoble and Louanna Furbee, 275-288. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

NON-PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Guérin, Valérie. 2010. Review of "Nese: A diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula (Vanuatu)," by Terry Crowley (ed. by John Lynch). 2006. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics 577. Oceanic Linguistics 49(2): 595-600.

Guérin, Valérie and Sébastien Lacrampe. 2007. A review of Lexique Pro. Language Documentation and Conservation 1(2):293-300.

NON-PEER-REVIEWED  PUBLICATIONS

Siu, Lap, and Valérie Guérin. 2011. Jarai-English Dictionary. The Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation.

Guérin, Valérie. 2010. Mavea Alphabet Book. The Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation. (PDF 3.6MB)

Guérin, Valérie. 2009. Mavea-English-Bislama Dictionary. The Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation. (PDF 8.6MB)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Guérin, Valérie and Angeliki Alvanoudi. 2022. What can discourse markers tell us about narrative structure in Mavea? Linguistic approaches to narratives, University of Otago, NZ, December 7, 2022.

Guérin, Valérie. 2019. Optional subject marking in an Accusative language. 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL 11), Universiteit Leiden, NL, June13-15, 2019.

Guérin, Valérie. 2015. Commands in Tayatuk. 12th International Workshop, Language and Culture Research Centre, Cairns Institute, Australia, September 28-October 3, 2015. 

Liu, Dorinda Tsai-Hsiu and Valérie Guérin. 2012. The Grammatical Structures of Verb Serialization in Tsou. 19th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA-19), Taiwan, June 26-30, 2012.

Guérin, Valérie. 2011. The social motivation of language maintenance: A case study. South Eastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) 78, Pine Mountain, Georgia, April 13-15, 2011.

Guérin, Valérie and Sébastien Lacrampe. 2009. Graduate student documenters: The "swim or sink" approach to fieldwork. The First International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), Honolulu, Hawai‘i, March 12-14, 2009.

Guérin, Valérie. 2007. Discovering Mavea, an endangered language spoken in Vanuatu. The seventh International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics (COOL7), Noumea, New Caledonia, July 2 to 6, 2007.

Ajo, Frances, Valérie Guérin, Ryoko Hattori, and Laura Robinson. 2005. Native speakers as documenters: A student initiative at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Linguistic Society of America (LSA), summer institute in Linguistics, Harvard, July 9 to 11, 2005.

Guérin, Valérie. 2005. The "Language Documentation Project": Rescuing the world’s endangered languages. NAFSA annual conference, Seattle, May 29 to June 03, 2005.

Gomes, Matias, Valérie Guérin, Ryoko Hattori, Kyuseek Hwang, Elena Indjieva, John Kupchik, Kenneth Rehg, Laura Robinson, Tracy Tang, Kazuko Yamashita, and Kimie Yanagida. 2005. A report on Ema: A language of East Timor. Austronesian Circle, April 28, 2005. University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Guérin, Valérie and Bonnie D. Schwartz. 2004. What does the L2er think which partial Wh-movement is ungrammatical in German? Inaugural meeting of the Generative Approach to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Honolulu, December 17 to 20, 2004.

Guérin, Valérie and Hooi Ling Soh. 2003. Intervention Effect in Mandarin Chinese and French Wh-in situ. Tuesday Seminar, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, September 23, 2003.

Guérin, Valérie and Hooi Ling Soh. 2003. Case Checking and Intervention Effect in Mandarin Chinese and French Wh-in situ. Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Atlanta, January 2 to 5, 2003.

GUEST LECTURES

2008. Mavea: A typological overview. In Studies in Linguistics: Languages of the world (ENGL 4373), Dr. Minjoo Kim, Texas Tech University, February 28, 2008.

2007. -The ‘Language Documentation Training Center’, a student initiative at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. And: Documenting Mavea, an endangered language of Vanuatu. In Studies in Linguistics: Endangered languages (ENGL 4373-5337), Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald, Texas Tech University, April 11, 2007.