Dr Valerie Guerin ~ Adjunct Research Fellow

Research interests

• Oceanic languages, languages of Vanuatu
• Papuan languages, languages of the Finisterre-Huon peninsula
• Syntax, Typology,  Language documentation and description 

 

Honours and research grants

• Sep 10                         ($500) Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation (With Lap Siu)
• Sep 09                        ($500) Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation
• Sep 08                         ($500) Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation
• May 05 -- Dec 07       (£12,292) Individual Graduate Scholarship. Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, SOAS, University of London, UK
• Jun 04                          ($1,500) Partners in Excellence Award. ETS-TOEFL, USA
• Jun 04                          ($4,500) Diversity and Equity Initiative Scholarship. Office of Student Equity Excellence & Diversity (SEED), University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
• May 02 -- Aug 02       ($7,951) Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 

 

Research Disciplines

• Linguistics (4704)
• Pacific Peoples culture, language and history (4513)

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Journal Articles

• von Prince L, Krajinovic A, Margetts A, Thieberger N and Guerin V (2019) Habiltuality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia. STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 72 (1), pp. 21-66, DOI:10.1515/stuf-2019-0002.
• von Prince K, Krajinovi? A, Margetts A, Thieberger N and Guérin V (2019) Habituality in four Oceanic languages of Melanesia. STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 72 (1), pp. 21-66, DOI:10.1515/stuf-2019-0002.
• Guérin V (2015) Demonstrative verbs: a typology of verbal manner deixis. Linguistic Typology, 19 (2), pp. 141-199, DOI:10.1515/lingty-2015-0006.
• Guerin V (2014) In search of the origin of na in Mavea. Studies in Language, 38 (4), pp. 690-716, DOI:10.1075/sl.38.4.02gue.
• Guerin V and Lacrampe S (2010) Trust me, I am a Linguist! Building partnership in the field. Language Documentation and Conservation, 4, pp. 22-33.
• Guerin V and Aoyama K (2009) Mavea. Journal of the International Phonetic Association , 39 (2), pp. 249-262, DOI:10.1017/S0025100309003958.

Books

• Guerin V (2011) A Grammar of Mavea: an oceanic language of Vanuatu. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication, 39. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu

Book Chapters

• Guerin V (2019) Recapitulative linkage in Mavea. In: Building Constructions. Studies in Diversity Linguistics, 24. Language and Science Press, Berlin, Germany, pp. 207-238
• Guerin V and Aiton G (2019) Bridging constructions in typological perspective. In: Bridging Constructions. Studies in Diversity Linguistics, 24. Language Science Press, Berlin, Germany, pp. 1-44
• Guérin V (2017) Imperatives and command strategies in Tayatuk (Morobe, PNG). In: Commands: a cross-linguistic typology. Explorations in Linguistic Typology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 206-222
• Guérin V (2017) The Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 911-941
• Ajo F, Guerin V, Hattori R and Robinson L (2010) Native speakers as documenters: a student initiative at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. In: Language Documentation: practices and values. John Benjamins Publishing, Philadelphia, USA, pp. 275-285

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 16+ research outputs authored by Dr Valerie Guerin from 2007 onwards.

Advisory Accreditation: I can be on your Advisory Panel as a Secondary Advisor.

These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Completed

• A grammar of Ma Manda a Papuan language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• A grammar of Mursi, a Nilo-Saharan language (2020, PhD , Secondary Advisor)