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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bruno EstigarribiaPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.740kg ISBN: 9781787352926ISBN 10: 1787352927 Pages: 386 Publication Date: 26 August 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Phonology and orthography: the sound system and its written representation 3. Nominals 4. Verbs 5. Postpositions 6. Voice 7. Evidentiality 8. Basic clauses 9. Quantification 10. Degree expressions 11. Noun incorporation into the verb 12. Complex sentences 13. Information structure 14. Order of affixes, clitics, and other particles in the predicate 15. Thematic glossary of highfrequency vocabulary 16. Text samples 17. Paradigms 18. Common phrases and expressions References Glossary IndexReviews'innovative both in its organization and in its statements, in the conceptual apparatus chosen and in the data on which it is based' Lingüística Author InformationBruno Estigarribia is Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Romance Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, and Affiliated Faculty in UNC’s Program in American Indian and Indigenous Studies and Program in Global Studies. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, of a Paraguayan father and an Italian mother, and was raised in a Calabrian-speaking family. He trained as a linguist at the Université Paris V-René Descartes-Sorbonne and Stanford University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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