Estigarribia, B.;
(2020)
A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani.
Grammars of World and Minority Languages.
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
The history of Guarani is a history of resilience. Paraguayan Guarani is a vibrant, modern language, mother tongue to millions of people in South America. It is the only indigenous language in the Americas spoken by a non-ethnically indigenous majority, and since 1992, it is also an official language of Paraguay alongside Spanish. This book provides the first comprehensive reference grammar of Modern Paraguayan Guarani written for an English-language audience. It is an accessible yet thorough and carefully substantiated description of the language’s phonology, morphosyntax, and semantics. It also includes information about its centuries of documented history and its current sociolinguistic situation. Examples come from literary sources and film, scholastic grammars, online newspapers, blogs and other publications, publicly accessible social media data, and the author’s own fieldwork. They are specifically chosen to reflect the diversity of uses of modern-day Guarani, with the aim of providing a realistic picture of the current state of the language in twenty-first century Paraguay. This book will benefit researchers and students of Guarani and Paraguay, such as linguists, anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, historians, or cultural studies and literature scholars. Typologically-oriented researchers and students of other Tupian and Amerindian languages will have reliable data for comparative purposes. Given the unique socio-historical profile of Guarani, researchers in fields such as language contact, bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, language education, and literacy will find this book a valuable reference resource.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-78735-287-2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787352872 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352872 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Bruno Estigarribia, 2020 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2020 Bruno Estigarribia has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as author of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library. This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Estigarribia, B. 2020. A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani. London, UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352872 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to re-use any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | Guarani, Paraguayan Guarani, South America, indigenous language |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107709 |
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