Guarani linguistics in the 21st century / / edited by Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Volume 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Estigarribia, Bruno,; Pinta, Justin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (421 pages).

In Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century Bruno Estigarribia and Justin Pinta bring together a series of state-of-the-art linguistic studies of the Guarani language. Guarani is the only indigenous language of the Americas that is spoken by a non-indigenous majority. In 1992, it achieved official st...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction / Bruno Estigarribia
• A Grammar Sketch of Paraguayan Guarani / Bruno Estigarribia
• Morphological Glossing Conventions for the Representation of Paraguayan Guaraní / Shaw Gynan
• The Demographics of Colonization in Paraguay and the Emergence of Paraguayan Guarani / Jorge Gómez Rendón
• Word Classes and Word Class Switching in Guaraní Syntax / Wolf Dietrich
• The Distribution of Implicit Arguments in Paraguayan Guaraní / Judith Tonhauser
• Comparison and the Expression of Degree in Mbyá Guaraní / Guillaume Thomas
• Deixis and Perspective in Paraguayan Guaraní Reportive Evidentiality / Maura Velázquez-Castillo
• Spanish Loans and Evidence for Stratification in the Guarani Lexicon / Justin Pinta and Jennifer L. Smith
• Insertion and Backflagging as Mixing Strategies Underlying Guarani-Spanish Mixed Words / Bruno Estigarribia
• Aspects of Dialectal Diversification of Guarani in Paraguay and Corrientes: Contact between Two Given Languages in Different Settings / Leonardo Cerno
• Jopara and The Spanish-Guarani Language Continuum in Paraguay: Considerations in Linguistics, Education, and Literature / Andrew Stewart
• Index.