Dr. Naomi Peck

General and comparative linguistics

Universität Bremen

Universitäts-Boulevard 13, Gebäude GW 2
28359 Bremen

Publications, contact information, lectures, etc. can be found on naomipeck.com

Research Focus

Typology
Descriptive and comparative linguistics
Word classes and nominalisation
Grammaticalisation
Tibeto-Burman languages

Peck, Naomi. 2020. Kera’a (Arunachal Pradesh, India) – Language Snapshot. Language Documentation and Description 19, 26-34.
Peck, Naomi, Thomas Wyatt & Mark Donohue. To appear. The asymmetrical categories of negation in Bumthang. Himalayan Linguistics 19(1).
Peck, Naomi. 2017. Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language. Honours thesis, Australian National University. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/139197

Peck, Naomi. Accepted. Verbose exponence in serial verb constructions. Poster presentation at the Transalpine Typology Meeting 2025, University of Pavia.
Becker, Laura & Naomi Peck. Accepted. Clausal Boundaries and silent pauses: Does prosody reflect syntactic structure? Oral presentation at Syntax of the World’s Languages X, University of Potsdam.
Peck, Naomi. Accepted. Temporal dynamics of the event network. Oral presentation at 58th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Bordeaux.
Peck, Naomi. Accepted. Hear say: Quotation in Kera’a. Oral presentation at 58th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL58), University of Bern.
Culhane, Kirsten, Naomi Peck & Uta Reinöhl. 2025. Lexical tone and stress in Kera’a, an endangered Trans-Himalayan language. Poster presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Herrsching.
Peck, Naomi. 2025. Use, reuse, redistribute: Open Data practices in typology and language documentation. Oral presentation at “Linguistic data and language comparison in light of the ‘quantitative turn’ and ‘big data’ – a workshop and symposium”, University of Bern.
Peck, Naomi, Filipe Figueiredo Cruz, Myriam Michalopolou, Pramodya Sewwandi Perera, & Albert Tallai. 2025. Zur Sprache kommen: Making research on endangered languages visible. Poster presentation at LingComm25, Online.
Peck, Naomi. 2024. Towards an interaction-based understanding of SVCs in Tibeto-Burman languages. Oral presentation at ÖLT2024, University of Innsbruck.
Peck, Naomi. 2024. A complex adaptive system approach to serial verb constructions. Oral presentation at Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2024, University of Zürich.
Peck, Naomi. 2024. Prosodic chunking and verbal complex predication. Oral presentation at 57th Annual Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Helsinki.
Peck, Naomi & Uta Reinöhl. 2024. Zur Sprache kommen: Bringing endangered languages to the wider public in a museum context. Oral presentation at Language Documentation & Archiving 2024, Online/Berlin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iGqnewLPo4
Culhane, Kirsten, Naomi Peck, Wifek Bouaziz & Uta Reinöhl. 2023. The loss of word-initial consonants in Kera’a: a challenge for phonological theory. Oral presentation at the 26th Himalayan Linguistics Symposium, INALCO Paris.
Holz, Rolf & Naomi Peck. 2023. Related but divergent: Clausal nominalisations in Kera’a and Tawrã. Oral presentation at the 26th Himalayan Linguistics Symposium, INALCO Paris.
Reinöhl, Uta, Kirsten Culhane, Naomi Peck & Wifek Bouaziz. 2023. The loss of word-initial consonants in Kera’a: a challenge for phonological theory. Oral presentation at the 26th International Conference of Historical Linguistics, University of Heidelberg.
Peck, Naomi. 2023. Serial verb constructions package information, not events. Oral presentation at the 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
Reinöhl, Uta, Kirsten Culhane, Simon Fries, Naomi Peck & Maria Vollmer. 2023. “One new idea” constraint holds cross-linguistically even in “flat” expressions. Oral presentation at the 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
Reinöhl, Uta, Kirsten Culhane, Naomi Peck & Wifek Bouaziz. 2023. The loss of word-initial consonants in Kera’a: a challenge for phonological theory. Oral presentation at the 12th North-East Indian Linguistics Society Conference, Gauhati University.
Peck, Naomi & Laura Becker. 2022. Towards typologising silent pauses. Oral presentation at the 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Texas Austin.
Peck, Naomi. 2022. Are all serial verb constructions realised in a single intonation unit? Poster presentation at the 14th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, University of Texas Austin.
Peck, Naomi. 2021. Multi-verbal expressions and the “one intonation unit” constraint. Oral presentation at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 6, SOAS/Online.
Peck, Naomi & Laura Becker. 2021. Syntactic pausing? Re-examining the associations. Oral presentation at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 6, SOAS/Online.
Peck, Naomi, Constantijn Kaland & T. Mark Ellison. 2021. An initial exploration of the interaction of tone and intonation in Kera’a. Poster presentation at the 1st Intonation Conference on Tone and Intonation, Sonderborg/Online.
Peck, Naomi. 2020. The phonetics and phonology of Mindri, a dialect of Kera’a (Idu). Oral presentation at ICSTLL53, University of North Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQdzfjKntxc
Peck, Naomi. 2019. Problematising the typology of comparison: the lexicalisation of implicit comparison. Poster presentation at the 13th Conference of the Association of Linguistic Typology, University of Pavia.
Donohue, Mark & Naomi Peck. 2019. Valency change in Bumthang, and the grammaticalisations of ‘give’. Oral presentation at the 25th Himalayan Languages Symposium, University of Sydney.
Ananthanarayan, Sunkulp, Eri Kashima, Naomi Peck and Siva Kalyan. 2019. Linguistic cartography: Mapping linguistic theory. Poster presentation at the Eighteenth Texas Linguistics Society, University of Texas at Austin.
Peck, Naomi. 2018. The comparative verb in Bumthang. Poster presentation at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sheffield.
Peck, Naomi. 2017. What makes an adjective?: The coding of property modification in Bumthang. Oral presentation at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of Sydney.
Donohue, Mark & Naomi Peck. 2016. Areal typology, history, and a central Bhutanese language. Oral presentation at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, Monash University.
Peck, Naomi, Mark Donohue & Thomas Wyatt 2016. Polarity, case marking and aspect in Bumthang, a central Bhutanese language. Oral presentation at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society, Monash University.
Peck, Naomi. 2016. Learning linguistics and history from Bhutanese Noun Phrases. Poster presentation at the 2nd ANU Student Research Conference, Canberra. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/108974

Rumsey, Alan, Andrew Noma, Lauren Reed, Naomi Peck, Charlotte van Tongeren & Stephanie Yam. To appear. ACQDIV portion of the Ku Waru Child Language Socialization Study (KWCLSS).
Donohue, Mark (collector), Thomas Wyatt (researcher) & Naomi Peck (researcher). In preparation. Bumthang 2015 Field Methods Materials (KJZ1), Digital collection managed by PARADISEC.
Donohue, Mark (collector), Thomas Wyatt (researcher) & Naomi Peck (researcher). In preparation. Bumthang and Dzongkha 2016 Archive (KJZ2), Digital collection managed by PARADISEC.
Donohue, Mark (collector) & Naomi Peck (researcher). In preparation. Bumthang Materials collected in 2013, 2014 and 2017 (KJZ3), Digital collection managed by PARADISEC.
Kashima, Eri, Sunny Ananthanarayan, Siva Kalyan & Naomi Peck. 2018. Linguistic cartography: mapping linguistic theory. CoEDL-ANU Linguistics Seminar Series, Australian National University, 6 July 2018.
Peck, Naomi, Daniel Prestipino, Rhiannon Schembri, Hedvig Skirgård, Henry Wu & Steph Yam. 2018. Humans who Code Grammars: advice to grammar writers regarding typological surveys. CoEDL-ANU Linguistics Seminar Series, Australian National University, 15 June 2018.